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Dignity in care for older people [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lennart Nordenfelt |
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Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Ames, Iowa, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
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1-282-34377-7 |
9786612343773 |
1-118-28870-X |
1-4443-1641-9 |
1-4443-1642-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (234 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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NordenfeltLennart <1945-> |
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Soggetti |
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Older people - Medical care |
Dignity |
Quality of life |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Dignity in Care for Older People; Contents; Preface; Contributors; An Outline of the Book; Preamble: the Case of David and Rebecca; Part I: Theoretical and Conceptual Considerations; 1: Health, Autonomy and Quality of Life: Some Basic Concepts in the Theory of Health Care and the Care of Older People; Introduction; 1.1 Health; 1.2 Quality of life; 1.3 Autonomy; 1.4 Integrity; 1.5 Final remarks on the basic values; References; 2: The Concept of Dignity; Introduction; 2.1 The definition of dignity; 2.2 Dignity: towards an analysis; 2.3 Relationships between the notions of dignity |
2.4 Further explorations on dignity. A commentary on some other authors2.5 Dignity and older people; References; 3: Being Body: The Dignity of Human Embodiment; Introduction; 3.1 The objective b ody and the lived body; 3.2 The dignity of the human body; 3.3 Implications for health care; References; Part II: Dignity and Older People: Some Empirical Findings; 4: Dignity and Dementia: An Analysis of Dignity of |
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Identity and Dignity Work in a Small Residential Home; Introduction; 4.1 Living together in a residential home; 4.2 The homelike nature of the residential home; 4.3 Activities and routines |
4.4 Identity4.5 Home, sweet home; 4.6 Dignity, normality and culture; 4.7 Summary and concluding remarks on dignity work, normality and power; References; 5: Dignity and Older Spouses with Dementia; Introduction; 5.1 Dignity in spousal relationships; 5.2 Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 6: Caring for Older People: Why Dignity Matters - the European Experience; Introduction; 6.1 The Dignity and Older Europeans study; 6.2 Findings; 6.3 Discussion; 6.4 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 7: A Dignified Death and Identity-Promoting Care; Introduction; 7.1 A dignified or good death |
7.2 Being allowed to be the person one is and to decide for oneself7.3 Death as a religious, medical and private event; 7.4 Extended identity close to death; 7.5 Threats to identity close to death; 7.6 Identity-promoting care; 7.7 Conclusion and reflections; References; 8: Dignity and the Dead; Introduction; 8.1 The view of the d ead person; 8.2 The dead as persons; 8.3 Change and continuity; 8.4 The necessary psychological change; 8.5 Brain death as a special category; 8.6 Fear of the dead person; 8.7 The rights of the dead; 8.8 Who owns the dead?; 8.9 Religious aspects |
8.10 The dignity of the deadReferences; 9: Dignity as an Object of Empirical Study: Experiences from Two Research Programmes; 9.1 General considerations; 9.2 Basic ethical concepts: a comparison between the DOE project and the Home project; 9.3 Salient aspects of the care of seriously ill older people in the Swedish context; 9.4 Conclusions; References; Index |
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The notion of quality of life has for several decades been well-established in ethical debate about health care and the care of older people. Dignity in Care for Older People highlights the notion of dignity within the care of the elderly, focusing on the importance of theoretical concepts.Primarily based on a Research Project, Dignity and Older Europeans, funded by the European Commission, this book provides a thorough investigation of the concept of dignity and related concepts such as quality of life and autonomy. It includes a chapter devoted to the dignity of human embodim |
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UNINA9910780898203321 |
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Autore |
Kruuk H (Hans) |
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Niko's nature : the life of Niko Tinbergen and his science of animal behaviour / / Hans Kruuk ; with drawings and photographs by Niko Tinbergen |
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Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , [2003] |
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©2003 |
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1-383-02278-X |
0-19-154539-2 |
1-280-86972-0 |
9786610869725 |
0-19-162247-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (774 p.) |
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Ethologists - Netherlands |
Animal behavior |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-371) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of photos in the text; Chapter 1 Wild birds and science; Chapter 2 A Dutch upbringing; Home, siblings, friends, and school; Youth organized for nature; A trip abroad; Chapter 3 Student years and Greenland; Playing truant; PhD time; Greenland; Chapter 4 Ethologist in the 1930s; Leiden after Greenland; Camping with the wasps; Experiments in Leiden; Niko and Konrad; Leiden after Lorenz; Chapter 5 The Second World War and after; German occupation; Leiden after the war; Productivity, ideas, and travel; The study of instinct; Move to Oxford |
Chapter 6 Starting again: Oxford in the 1950sArrival; The 'Hard Core'; Writing and science; Students in the late 1950s; Research projects; Niko and academia; Home and career; Chapter 7 Niko's two worlds: Oxford in the 1960s; Dunes, birds, and beasts; The four whys; Walney; Serengeti; Photography and filming; Oxford academia again, Niko's other world; Writing, lecturing, and conferences; Ethology and |
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humanity; The black dog, at home, at work, everywhere; Chapter 8 The Nobel Prize, and human behaviour; Nobel laureate; Childhood autism; The Alexander technique; Chapter 9 Winding down; Retirement |
Old friendsA family, a cottage, a life; Chapter 10 Niko's legacy; An evaluation; Output: publications and impact; Rewards; Science that followed; Torch-bearers; Memories; Notes; Niko Tinbergen's publications; Index of proper names; Index of subjects |
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A charismatic naturalist, bird-watcher, teacher, artist, photographer, film-maker, and winner of the Nobel Prize, Niko Tinbergen was a prominent and influential scientist. Jointly with Konrad Lorenz, he laid the foundation for a new science, the biological study of animal behaviour. 'Ethology', and his talent for devising behaviour-testing experiments, provided an outlet for Niko's enthusiasm for gulls and sticklebacks, snow-buntings and foxes, wasps and falcons, and even children.This first full-length biography of Niko Tinbergen, lavishly illustrated with many of Niko's own drawings, describ |
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