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Life and death in intensive care

Title
Life and death in intensive care / Joan Cassel.
Author
Cassell, Joan.
Publication
Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, 2005.

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x, 235 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • Surgical intensive care > United States
  • Surgical intensive care > New Zealand
  • Critical care medicine > United States
  • Critical care medicine > New Zealand
  • Critical Care
  • United States
  • New Zealand
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : moonscape : the surgical intensive care unit -- 1. A caring ethic : nurses and the dilemma of powerlessness -- 2. The best of times, the worst of times : the residents -- 3. Diverse universes of medical discourse : the fellows -- 4. The attendings -- 5. Is death the enemy, or suffering? -- 6. Confronting death in the surgical intensive care unit -- 7. Intensive caring in New Zealand -- 8. Going gentle into that good night : death in Auckland -- 9. Focusing on the bottom line -- 10. The dominion of death -- App. "Hard" science, "soft" science, social science : the anxiety of methods.
ISBN
  • 1592133355 (cloth : alk paper)
  • 1592133363 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1592133371 (electronic)
LCCN
2004055302
OCLC
  • ocm55960945
  • SCSB-5183915
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries