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Nursing Stories : Life and Death in a German Hospice / Nicholas Eschenbruch.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New Directions in Anthropology ; 27Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2006]Copyright date: 2006Description: 1 online resource (148 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789203967
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.17/560943
LOC classification:
  • RT87.T45 E83 2007
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Approaches to Hospice Death -- 2. The Research Process -- 3. An Ethnographic Account of Everyday Hospice Care -- 4. Nursing Stories – Narrative Approaches to Hospice Life -- 5. Death at Stadtwald Hospice -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: At a time, when the section of the older population is increasing in all western societies, more and more attention needs to be paid to the growing number of people who live with and die of drawn-out terminal illnesses, cancer being one of the most common ones. This study focuses on terminally ill people in a German hospice and addresses the question how meaningful experience is constructed for these patients in an attempt to preserve their dignity as persons. It is based on detailed and sometimes moving material from diary texts and active participation of the author in the role of a nurse, which allowed him to watch closely the behaviour of patients and nurses in routine situations and to look at the underlying emotions, values, and assumptions within such interaction. This book goes well beyond this particular case and reaches conclusions about death narratives that are significant for the social sciences more generally.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Approaches to Hospice Death -- 2. The Research Process -- 3. An Ethnographic Account of Everyday Hospice Care -- 4. Nursing Stories – Narrative Approaches to Hospice Life -- 5. Death at Stadtwald Hospice -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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At a time, when the section of the older population is increasing in all western societies, more and more attention needs to be paid to the growing number of people who live with and die of drawn-out terminal illnesses, cancer being one of the most common ones. This study focuses on terminally ill people in a German hospice and addresses the question how meaningful experience is constructed for these patients in an attempt to preserve their dignity as persons. It is based on detailed and sometimes moving material from diary texts and active participation of the author in the role of a nurse, which allowed him to watch closely the behaviour of patients and nurses in routine situations and to look at the underlying emotions, values, and assumptions within such interaction. This book goes well beyond this particular case and reaches conclusions about death narratives that are significant for the social sciences more generally.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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