The Dying Process
Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care
Published on 4. January 2002
240 pages
978-1-134-58866-4 (ISBN)
Description
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, offers a powerful new perspective in embodiment and emotion in death and dying.
A detailed and subtle ethnographic study, The Dying Process engages with a range of deeply complex and ethically contentious issues surrounding the care of dying patients in hospices and elsewhere.
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, offers a powerful new perspective in embodiment and emotion in death and dying.
A detailed and subtle ethnographic study, The Dying Process engages with a range of deeply complex and ethically contentious issues surrounding the care of dying patients in hospices and elsewhere.
Reviews / Votes
'Although not exactly a comfortable or easy read fopr anyone working in palliative care, this book is a fundamentlly 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.' - Paul Keeley, The Lancet '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 LancetMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
0,36 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-58866-4 (9781134588664)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
06/2000
1st Edition
Routledge
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Book
06/2000
1st Edition
Routledge
€64.90
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Person
Lawton, Julia
Content
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
