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Difíceis decisões [electronic resource] : etnografia de um Centro de Tratamento Intensivo / Rachel Aisengart Menezes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Menezes, Rachel Aisengart, author.
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology.
- Critical care medicine.
- Genre:
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (107 pages)
- Other Title:
- DifÃceis decisões
- Difíceis decisões
- Place of Publication:
- Rio de Janeiro : SciELO Books - Editora FIOCRUZ, 2006
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In our modern ICUs, death, previously seen as an irrevocable event, passes more clearly to the order of processes, whose duration, intensity and consequences are managed or regulated according to criteria and values that are often not explained. Through a case study, the author addresses the social organization of intensive care centers, the ethical dramas involving health professionals, patients and family members, and, finally, the emergence of a new specialist, the intensivist.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
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