No Place for Dying: Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue by Chapple, Helen Stanton

No Place for Dying: Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781598744026)

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No Place for Dying: Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue by Chapple, Helen Stanton

No Place for Dying: Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue

$200.00
No Place for Dying: Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue by Chapple, Helen Stanton

No Place for Dying: Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 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 project of rescue and the clinical culmination of death. This book and its important social and policy implications make key contributions to the social science of medicine, nursing, hospital administration, and health care delivery fields.

Author: Helen Stanton Chapple
ISBN-10: 159874402X
ISBN-13: 9781598744026
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2010
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2011
Scitech Book News 12/01/2010 pg. 70
By Helen Stanton Chapple
By Helen Stanton Chapple
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Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD, RN, CT, is the Nurse Ethicist at Creighton University's Center for Health Policy and Ethics. Her twenty years of bedside nursing include oncology, research, hospice home care, cardiac and neuroscience critical care. A persistent interest in thanatology and the fate of hospitalized dying patients prompted her to pursue graduate degrees in bioethics and anthropology at the University of Virginia. She is the author of several articles in top anthropology and nursing journals.

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