Critical Moments - Death And Dying In Intensive Care

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Critical Moments - Death And Dying In Intensive Care

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The development of the intensive care unit stands as an expression of a post war medical revolution in which the means have become available to deflect and defer death almost indefinitely. Here, cultural expectations of medical heroism are conjoined with images of the most exacting and precise application of medical science. However, the use of an arsenal of scientific and technological advances to try and pull dying people back from the very brink of death has, it might be argued, leapt ahead of our ability to deal with the professional, social, ethical and financial. This book explores how the withdrawal of active medical treatment is managed in intensive care units, placing this in the context of detailed patient case studies. It examines, in particular, the notion of 'natural death' in this highly technological health care setting, and explores how doctors and nurses strive to achieve this for dying people and their families. It draws extensively on the experiences of patients' families, doctors and nurses, using interview and observational data. It is a timely account of the practical, ethical and emotional difficulties of end of life care in this complex setting . The book will be of interest to nurses working with dying people in acute hospital environments, to those engaged in the sociology of death and dying, and in the conduct of ethnographic research in this field.consequences thrown up by its use.

Author Biography:

Jane E. Seymour is a research fellow in the Sheffield Palliative Care Studies Group at the University of Sheffield. She trained as a nurse in 1979, having completed a degree in Social Science at Exeter University. During her nursing career she worked in acute and intensive care: it was here that she developed an interest in end of life care, death, dying and bereavement. She gained a master's degree in sociology from Sheffield Hallam University in 1991 and, in 1997, a doctorate examining the management of death and dying in intensive care from the University of Sheffield.

Release date Australia

June 16th, 2001

Author

SEYMOUR

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Illustrations

references, glossary, index

Imprint

Open University Press

Pages

208

Publisher

Open University Press

Dimensions

152x230x12

ISBN-13

9780335204236

Product ID

2429005

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