No place for dying : hospitals and the ideology of rescue / Helen Stanton Chapple.

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...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Chapple, Helen Stanton
Other title:	Hospitals and the ideology of rescue.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, ©2010.
Subjects:	Palliative treatment. Death. Terminal care > Ethics. Terminal care > Utilization. Hospice care > Utilization. Palliative treatment > Utilization. Terminally ill > Psychology.