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Record Nr.

UNINA9910172245203321

Autore

Lawton Julia <1969->

Titolo

The dying process : patients' experiences of palliative care / / Julia Lawton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-134-58866-6

0-203-13027-8

1-134-58867-4

0-203-17013-X

1-280-40116-8

9786610401161

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

362.1/75

Soggetti

Palliative treatment

Terminal care

Death

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-222) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 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; Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, The Dying Process draws on the experiences of daycare 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 the ideology central to the modern hospice movement of enabling patients to 'live until they die', Julia Lawton shows how our concept of a 'good death' is open to interpretation. Her study examines the non-negotiable effects of a patient's bodily deterioration on their sense of self and, in so doing,