No Place for Dying Free

Author: Prof. Helen Stanton Chapple PhD
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1598744038
Category: Medical

No Place for Dying: Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue

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. hospital embodies society's hope for itselfAa 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 medical practice or quality control. An anthropologist and bioethicist with two decades of professional nursing experience, Helen Chapple goes beyond current work on hospital care to present fine-grained accounts of the clinicians, patients, and families who navigate this uncharted, untidy, and unpredictable territory between the highly choreographed proj Get No Place for Dying our bestseller medical books.

No Place for Dying Free

An anthropologist and bioethicist with two decades of professional nursing experience, Helen Chapple goes beyond current work on hospital care to present fine-grained accounts of the clinicians, patients, and families who navigate this uncharted, untidy, and unpredictable territory between the highly choreographed proj

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