1st Edition
No Place For Dying Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue
By Helen Stanton Chapple
Copyright 2010
324 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
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The U.S. hospital embodies society’s hope for itself—a technological bastion standing between us and death. What does the gold standard of rescue, as ideology and industry, mean for the dying patient in the hospital and for the status of dying in American culture? This book shows how dying is a management problem for hospitals, occupying space but few billable encounters and of little interest to... Read more
Introduction; 1: Hospital Dying Situations; 2: Rescue, Stabilization, and Speed; 3: Configuring Dying and Death; 4: Death with as Little Dying as Possible; 5: “Every Medical Action Is a Transaction”; 6: How Rescue as Industry Minimizes Dying; 7: Order out of Chaos; 8: Ritual Display, Palliative Care, and Trust; 9: Making a Place for Dying in the Hospital
Biography
Helen Stanton Chapple
