1st Edition
The Dying Process Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care
By Julia Lawton
Copyright 2000
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Preface and acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, 2. Day care: a safe retreat, Preface to Chapters 3 and 4 – changing contexts: entering the hospice, 3. ‘Body-subject’ to ‘body-object’: hospice care and the dying patient, 4. Inpatient hospice care: the sequestration of the unbounded body and ‘dirty dying’, 5. Invisible suffering: the social death, 6. Final reflections, Appendix A, Appendix B, Notes, Bibliography, Name index, Subject index
Biography
Lawton, Julia
'Although not exactly a comfortable or easy read for anyone working in palliative care, this book is a fundamentally important study of what happens when patients die, especially in hospices. It should become essential reading for anyone with an interest in the care of the dying.' - The Lancet
