Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-158) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Title page; Contents; Preface; One Life in the face of death; Two Thoughts about facing death; Three The cancer story; Four Constructions of a good death; Five How we die: The uncertain worlds of terminally ill people; Six Medicine's affair with death; Seven Speaking the 'truth' about dying; Eight Patient autonomy and professional control; Nine The rewards and costs of caring; Palliation: Masking pain or masking death?; Methodological Appendix; References; Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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A sensitively observed ethnographic account of the experience of terminal illness and care.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
OverDrive, Inc.
Stock Number
6CBCAD34-740B-4865-B413-7DB77502AB03
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Title
Fragile lives.
International Standard Book Number
1864485639
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Death-- Social aspects-- Australia.
Terminal care.
Terminally ill-- Australia.
Death-- Social aspects.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS-- Death, Grief, Bereavement.