TY  - BOOK
AU  - Livne,Roi
TI  - Values at the End of Life: The Logic of Palliative Care 
SN  - 9780674239869
AV  - R726.8 .L58 2019eb
U1  - 616.02/9 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Palliative treatment
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Terminal care
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Introduction: The New Economy of Dying --; 1. The Palliative Care Gaze --; 2. Financial Economization --; 3. What the Dying Want --; 4. Making the Dying Subject --; 5. Goat Taming --; Conclusion: Toward a Sociology of Economization --; Methodology --; Notes --; References --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Once defiant of death—or even in denial—many American families and health care professionals are embracing the notion that a life consumed by suffering may not be worth living. Sociologist Roi Livne documents the rise and effectiveness of hospice and palliative care, and the growing acceptance that less treatment may be better near the end of life
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674239869
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674239869
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ER  -