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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Hospital dying situations
  • Rescue, stabilization, and speed
  • Configuring dying and death
  • Death with as little dying as possible
  • "Every medical action is a transaction" : rescue as industry
  • How rescue as industry minimizes dying
  • Order out of chaos : the ritual of intensification
  • Ritual display, palliative care, and trust
  • Making a place for dying in the hospital.