No place for dying
Subtitle: American hospitals and the ideology of rescue
By: Helen Stanton Chapple
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781598744026; 9781598744033
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Hospital dying situations; title: Rescue, stabilization, and speed; title: Configuring dying and death; title: Death with as little dying as possible; title: Every medical action is a transaction : rescue as industry; title: How rescue as industry minimizes dying; title: Order out of chaos : the ritual of intensification; title: Ritual display, palliative care, and trust; title: Making a place for dying in the hospital.