UID:
almafu_9958093335802883
Format:
1 online resource (240 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-58866-6
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0-203-13027-8
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1-134-58867-4
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0-203-17013-X
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1-280-40116-8
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9786610401161
Content:
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,
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-22679-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-22678-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203130278
