Nursing stories : life and death in a German hospice / Nicholas Eschenbruch.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2007.
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| Series: | New directions in anthropology ;
v. 27. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Approaches to hospice death
- Perspectives on 'dying'
- Social death in contemporary life
- A brief outline of the hospice movement
- Death, denial and the social sciences
- 2. The research process
- Reflexivity and the origins of the ethnography
- Background information about Stadtwald Hospice
- The emergence of field, topic and researcher
- A note on research ethics, diaries and translations
- 3. An ethnographic account of everyday hospice care
- Hospital or home? : the spatial and figurative setting of Stadtwald Hospice
- Good hospice care - a discussion of daily nursing practice
- The nurses' view - carers' interest in patients' lives
- 4. Nursing stories - narrative approaches to hospice life
- Stories in the negotiation of hospice life
- The meaning of small things - therapeutic emplotment in hospice nursing
- 5. Death at Stadtwald Hospice
- Arrangements surrounding death
- Farewells and farewell rituals
- Narrative patterns surrounding death
- 6. Conclusion
- Ethnographic summary
- Theoretical suggestions.