| Description |
1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-308) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Palliative treatment.
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Palliative treatment. |
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Death.
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Death. |
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Terminal care -- Ethics.
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Terminal care. |
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Ethics. |
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Terminal care -- Utilization.
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Hospice care -- Utilization.
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Hospice care -- Utilization. |
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Palliative treatment -- Utilization.
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Terminally ill -- Psychology.
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Terminally ill -- Psychology. |
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Hospice Care -- statistics & numerical data. |
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Hospices -- statistics & numerical data. |
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Attitude to Death. |
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Palliative Care -- statistics & numerical data. |
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Terminal Care -- ethics. |
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Terminal Care -- statistics & numerical data. |
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Terminally Ill -- psychology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Hospitals and the ideology of rescue |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Chapple, Helen Stanton. No place for dying. Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, ©2010 9781598744026 (DLC) 2009052717 (OCoLC)466336288 |
| ISBN |
9781598747034 (electronic book) |
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1598747037 (electronic book) |
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9781598744026 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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159874402X (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781598744033 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1598744038 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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