Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Poverty of dying in India: a comparative landscape -- 2 Dying in the homeland -- 3 Are Indian hospitals good places for the dying elderly? -- 4 The rhetoric of dying in home -- 5 Is palliative care the an…
Most aged in India are experiencing a highly protracted death in hospitals, entangled in tubes and machines. Such 'medicalised death' entails huge psychological, social and financial costs for both patients and their caregivers. There are also many who are dying in abject neglec…