Deciding Who Lives: Fateful Choices in the Intensive-Care Nursery
Author:   Renee R. Anspach
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520212138


Pages:   303
Publication Date:   05 December 1997
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Renee R. Anspach
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780520212138


ISBN 10:   0520212134
Pages:   303
Publication Date:   05 December 1997
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: The Dilemmas and Their Dimensions Chapter 2. Theorizing About Life-and-Death Decisions: A Critical Review Chapter 3. Predicting the Future: Why Physicians and Nurses Disagree Chapter 4. Producing Assent: Parents, Professionals, and Life-and-Death Decisions Chapter 5. Diffusing Dissent: Parents, Professionals, and Conflict in Decisions Chapter 6. Beyond the Nursery: Life-and-Death Decisions and Paradoxes in Public Policy Appendix 1. Field Research and the Sociology of (Sociological) Knowledge Appendix 2. Interviewing Notes Bibliography Index

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""In making an argument for the social science paradigm in bioethics, Anspach's work is first-rate: coherent in its presentation, well organized and flawlessly written. . . . [Anspach] emerges as one of the finest theoretically ambitious field workers in medical sociology today.""--Daniel F. Chambliss, ""Contemporary Sociology


"""In making an argument for the social science paradigm in bioethics, Anspach's work is first-rate: coherent in its presentation, well organized and flawlessly written. . . . [Anspach] emerges as one of the finest theoretically ambitious field workers in medical sociology today.""--Daniel F. Chambliss, ""Contemporary Sociology"


In making an argument for the social science paradigm in bioethics, Anspach's work is first-rate: coherent in its presentation, well organized and flawlessly written. . . . [Anspach] emerges as one of the finest theoretically ambitious field workers in medical sociology today. --Daniel F. Chambliss, Contemporary Sociology


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Renee R. Anspach is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan.

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