The dying process : patients' experiences of palliative care / Julia Lawton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawton, Julia, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palliative treatment.

Terminal care.

Death.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, The Dying Process draws on the experiences of daycare and hospice patients to provide a forceful new analysis of the period of decline prior to death.Placing the bodily realities of dying very firmly centre stage and questioning the ideology central to the modern hospice movement of enabling patients to 'live until they die', Julia Lawton shows how our concept of a 'good death' is open to interpretation. Her study examines the non-negotiable effects of a patient's bodily deterioration on their sense of self and, in so doing,

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; Day care: a safe retreat; Preface to Chapters 3 and 4; changing contexts: entering the hospice; 'Body-subject' to 'body-object': hospice care and the dying patient; Inpatient hospice care: the sequestration of the unbounded body and 'dirty dying'; Invisible suffering: the social death; Final reflections; Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-222) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-134-58866-6

0-203-13027-8

1-134-58867-4

0-203-17013-X

1-280-40116-8

9786610401161

9780203130278

OCLC:

277598775