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Life and death in intensive care / / Joan Cassell



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Autore: Cassell Joan Visualizza persona
Titolo: Life and death in intensive care / / Joan Cassell Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia : , : Temple University Press, , 2005
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 233 pages)
Disciplina: 617/.919
Soggetto topico: Critical care medicine - New Zealand
Critical care medicine - United States
Surgical intensive care - New Zealand
Surgical intensive care - United States
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-228) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 conducted in both the United States and New Zealand, Cassell compares the moral outlooks and underlying principles of SICU nurses, residents, intensivists, and surgeons
Titolo autorizzato: Life and death in intensive care  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-09391-2
9786611093914
1-59213-337-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784275303321
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