Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Julia Lawton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.540kg
ISBN: 9780415226790
ISBN 10: 0415226791
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 20 June 2000
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
Preface and acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, 2. Day care: a safe retreat, Preface to Chapters 3 and 4 – changing contexts: entering the hospice, 3. ‘Body-subject’ to ‘body-object’: hospice care and the dying patient, 4. Inpatient hospice care: the sequestration of the unbounded body and ‘dirty dying’, 5. Invisible suffering: the social death, 6. Final reflections, Appendix A, Appendix B, Notes, Bibliography, Name index, Subject index
Reviews
'Although not exactly a comfortable or easy read for anyone working in palliative care, this book is a fundamentally important study of what happens when patients die, especially in hospices. It should become essential reading for anyone with an interest in the care of the dying.' - The Lancet
A strong feature of the book... is the copius discussion of socila theory. This is a very good book, by an auhor who is never willing to take fashionable or politically correct statemnets for granted but attempts to assess these in light of knowledge gained through painful fieldwork experience. Clive Seale, University of London. <br>
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