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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457336803321

Autore

Chapple Helen Stanton

Titolo

No place for dying : hospitals and the ideology of rescue / / Helen Stanton Chapple

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-42344-8

1-315-42345-6

1-59874-703-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Disciplina

616/.029

Soggetti

Palliative treatment

Death

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2010 by Left Coast Press, Inc."--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-308) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Hospital Dying Situations; Chapter 2. Rescue, Stabilization, and Speed; Chapter 3. Configuring Dying and Death; Chapter 4. Death with as Little Dying as Possible; Chapter 5. "Every Medical Action Is a Transaction": Rescue as Industry; Chapter 6. How Rescue as Industry Minimizes Dying; Chapter 7. Order out of Chaos: The Ritual of Intensification; Chapter 8. Ritual Display, Palliative Care, and Trust; Chapter 9. Making a Place for Dying in the Hospital; Appendix; References; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

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.