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The dying process : patients' experiences of palliative care /

"Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, The Dying Process draws on the experiences of day care and hospice patients to provide a forceful new analysis of the period of decline prior to death." "Placing the bodily realities of dying very firmly centre stage and questioning...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lawton, Julia, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Day care : a safe retreat
  • Preface to Chapters 3 and 4
  • changing contexts: entering the hospice
  • 'Body-subject' to 'body-object' : hospice care and the dying patient
  • Inpatient hospice care : the sequestration of the unbounded body and 'dirty dying'
  • Invisible suffering : the social death
  • Final reflections.