The Dying Process: Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care by Lawton, Julia

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.

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EAN: 9780415226790

UPC: 9780415226790

ISBN: 9780415226790

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Item Length: 21.3 cm

Number of Pages: 240 Pages

Publication Name: The Dying Process: Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care

Language: English

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Item Height: 216 mm

Subject: Medicine, Nursing, Healthcare System

Publication Year: 2000

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 318 g

Subject Area: Social Psychology

Author: Julia Lawton

Item Width: 138 mm

Format: Paperback