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

Author:: Chapple, Helen Stanton
Published:: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2010]
Copyright Date:: ©2010
Physical Description:: 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Availability

Finding items...

Contents:

Hospital dying situations -- Rescue, stabilization, and speed -- Configuring dying and death -- Death with as little dying as possible -- "Every medical action is a transaction" : rescue as industry -- How rescue as industry minimizes dying -- Order out of chaos : the ritual of intensification -- Ritual display, palliative care, and trust -- Making a place for dying in the hospital.

Subject(s):

ISBN:

9781598744026 (hardcover : alk. paper)
159874402X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781598744033 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1598744038 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

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

Source of Acquisition:

Harrisburg copy: Purchased with funds from the Highmark Blue Shield Education Fund; 2010.

Endowment Note:

Highmark Blue Shield Education Fund

View MARC record | catkey: 6271143