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Autore |
Cassell Joan |
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Titolo |
Life and death in intensive care / / Joan Cassell |
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Philadelphia : , : Temple University Press, , 2005 |
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ISBN |
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9786611093914 |
9781281093912 |
1281093912 |
9781592133376 |
1592133371 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 233 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Critical care medicine - New Zealand |
Critical care medicine - United States |
Surgical intensive care - New Zealand |
Surgical intensive care - United States |
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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 (p. 191-228) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Moonscape: The Surgical Intensive Care Unit; 1 A Caring Ethic: Nurses and the Dilemma of Powerlessness; 2 The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: The Residents; 3 Diverse Universes of Medical Discourse: The Fellows; 4 The Attendings; 5 Is Death the Enemy, or Suffering?; 6 Confronting Death in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit; 7 Intensive Caring in New Zealand; 8 Going Gentle into that Good Night: Death in Auckland; 9 Focusing on the Bottom Line; 10 The Dominion of Death; Appendix "Hard" Science, "Soft" Science, Social Science: The Anxiety of Methods; Notes; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Life and Death in Intensive Care offers a unique portrait of the surgical intensive care unit (SICU), the place in medical centers and hospitals where patients with the gravest medical conditions-from comas to terminal illness-are treated. Author Joan Cassell employs the concept of ""moral economies"" to explain the dilemmas that patients, families, and medical staff confront in treatment. Drawing upon her fieldwork |
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conducted in both the United States and New Zealand, Cassell compares the moral outlooks and underlying principles of SICU nurses, residents, intensivists, and surgeons |
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