Dying: A Social Perspective on the End of Life

Alex Broom (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

196 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4094-5373-4 (ISBN)

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An inevitable and universal experience, dying is experienced by individuals in different ways, often related to the character of our relationships, family structures, gender identities, cultural backgrounds, and economic means. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork with patients, carers and health professionals in Australia and the United Kingdom, Dying: A Social Perspective on the End of Life provides a critical examination of the different spheres of dying, in social and cultural context. Exploring complex issues such as the politics of assisted dying, negotiating medical futility, gender and dying, the desire for redemption, the moralities of 'the good fight' and the lived experience of bodily disintegration, this book links novel theoretical ideas within sociology to cutting-edge empirical data collected in palliative and end-of-life care contexts. A theoretically engaged understanding of the social mediation of the end of life, Dying: A Social Perspective on the End of Life also sheds light on the manner in which the end of life can be shaped by major economic, cultural and socio-cultural shifts including neo-liberalism, individualisation, medicalisation, professionalisation and detraditionalisation. As such, it will appeal to social science, health and medical researchers interested in the end of life, as well as those working in palliative and end-of-life care settings.

Alex Broom is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Sydney, Australia.

List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Time to Die? Breaking the News of Futility and the End of Life; Chapter 3 A Place for Dying; Chapter 4 The Moralities and Politics of Dying in a Hospice; Chapter 5 Families and Dying; Chapter 6 Nursing the Dying; Chapter 7 Dying, Healing and Survivorship; Chapter 8 Gender and the Moralities of Dying; Chapter 9 The Dying Body; Chapter 10 Conclusion;

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-4094-5373-1 / 1409453731
ISBN-13	978-1-4094-5373-4 / 9781409453734
Zustand	Neuware