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No place for dying : hospitals and the ideology of rescue /

This book shows how dying is a management problem for hospitals, occupying space but few billable encounters and of little interest to medical practice or quality control. An anthropologist and bioethicist with two decades of professional nursing experience, Helen Chapple goes beyond current work on...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chapple, Helen Stanton
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, ©2010.
Temas:
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This book shows how dying is a management problem for hospitals, occupying space but few billable encounters and of little interest to medical practice or quality control. An anthropologist and bioethicist with two decades of professional nursing experience, Helen Chapple goes beyond current work on hospital care to present fine-grained accounts of the clinicians, patients, and families who navigate this uncharted, untidy, and unpredictable territory between the highly choreographed project of rescue and the clinical culmination of death.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-308) and index.
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