No place for dying : American hospitals and the ideology of rescue / Helen Stanton Chapple.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapple, Helen Stanton.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palliative treatment.

Death.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book shows how dying is a management problem for hospitals, occupying space but few billable encounters and of little interest to medical practice or quality control. An anthropologist and bioethicist with two decades of professional nursing experience, Helen Chapple goes beyond current work on hospital care to present fine-grained accounts of the clinicians, patients, and families who navigate this uncharted, untidy, and unpredictable territory between the highly choreographed project of rescue and the clinical culmination of death.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Hospital Dying Situations; Chapter 2. Rescue, Stabilization, and Speed; Chapter 3. Configuring Dying and Death; Chapter 4. Death with as Little Dying as Possible; Chapter 5. "Every Medical Action Is a Transaction": Rescue as Industry; Chapter 6. How Rescue as Industry Minimizes Dying; Chapter 7. Order out of Chaos: The Ritual of Intensification; Chapter 8. Ritual Display, Palliative Care, and Trust; Chapter 9. Making a Place for Dying in the Hospital; Appendix; References; Index; About the Author

Notes:

"First published 2010 by Left Coast Press, Inc."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-308) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-42343-X

1-315-42344-8

1-315-42345-6

1-59874-703-7

9781315423456

OCLC:

760927622