Death: current perspectives
Searching for a job with heart, and despite having no formal qualifications or experience, Ware found herself working in palliative care. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for people, if they …
Searching for a job with heart, and despite having no formal qualifications or experience, Ware found herself working in palliative care. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for people, if they …
Searching for a job with heart, and despite having no formal qualifications or experience, Ware found herself working in palliative care. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for people, if they …
After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bro…
"Searching for a job with heart, and despite having no formal qualifications or experience, Ware found herself working in palliative care. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for people, if they…
This book shows how dying is a management problem for hospitals, occupying space but few billable encounters and of little interest to medical practice or quality control. An anthropologist and bioethicist with two decades of professional nursing experience, Helen Chapple goes b…
The U.S. hospital embodies society's hope for itself--a technological bastion standing between us and death. What does the gold standard of rescue, as ideology and industry, mean for the dying patient in the hospital and for the status of dying in American culture? This book sho…
This book shows how dying is a management problem for hospitals, occupying space but few billable encounters and of little interest to medical practice or quality control. An anthropologist and bioethicist with two decades of professional nursing experience, Helen Chapple goes b…
