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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Walnut Creek, Calif. :
Left Coast Press,
©2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-308) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781598747034 1598747037 1315423448 9781315423449 9781315423456 1315423456 9781315423432 131542343X 159874402X 9781598744026 |