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The maintenance of life : preventing social death through euthanasia talk and end-of-life care : lessons from the Netherlands / Frances Norwood.
LIBRA R726 .N67 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norwood, Frances, 1966-
- Series:
- Carolina Academic Press ethnographic studies in medical anthropology series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Euthanasia--Netherlands.
- Euthanasia.
- Terminal care.
- Netherlands.
- Terminal care--Netherlands.
- Medical anthropology.
- Euthanasia--ethics.
- Right to Die--ethics.
- Attitude to Death.
- Social Medicine.
- Medical Subjects:
- Euthanasia--ethics.
- Right to Die--ethics.
- Attitude to Death.
- Social Medicine.
- Netherlands.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- Examines social views and practices toward death and dying in the early twenty-first century, based on a study of euthanasia practices and home death in the Netherlands with interviews with patients, families, and physicians.
- Contents:
- That's not my wife
- Making a discourse
- Euthanasia in historical and cultural perspective
- Family friend at the end : a Huisarts perspective
- Into the garden : euthanasia talk and the dying individual
- Family matter : euthanasia in families and homes
- Lessons from The Netherlands : a comparison of practices and policies at the end of Dutch and American life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-282) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Weinheimer Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781594605185
- 1594605181
- OCLC:
- 402540691
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