Nursing Stories

Life and Death in a German Hospice
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-84545-151-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 148 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 375 g

Reihe: New Directions in Anthropology

At a time, when the section of the older population is increasing in all western societies, more and more attention needs to be paid to the growing number of people who live with and die of drawn-out terminal illnesses, cancer being one of the most common ones. This study focuses on terminally ill people in a German hospice and addresses the question how meaningful experience is constructed for these patients in an attempt to preserve their dignity as persons. It is based on detailed and sometimes moving material from diary texts and active participation of the author in the role of a nurse, which allowed him to watch closely the behaviour of patients and nurses in routine situations and to look at the underlying emotions, values, and assumptions within such interaction. This book goes well beyond this particular case and reaches conclusions about death narratives that are significant for the social sciences more generally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eschenbruch, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Approaches to Hospice Death

Chapter 2. The Research Process

Chapter 3. An Ethnographic Account of Everyday Hospice Care

Chapter 4. Nursing Stories – Narrative Approaches to Hospice Life

Chapter 5. Death at Stadtwald Hospice

Chapter 6. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Eschenbruch, Nicholas
Nicholas Eschenbruch read Modern History and Middle Eastern Studies in Freiburg, Germany, Oxford and Istanbul. He did postgraduate research in Social Anthropology at the Humboldt University, Berlin and at Durham University, UK. He is now a junior lecturer at the Institute for the History of Medicine, Freiburg, Germany.

Nicholas Eschenbruch read Modern History and Middle Eastern Studies in Freiburg, Germany, Oxford and Istanbul. He did postgraduate research in Social Anthropology at the Humboldt University, Berlin and at Durham University, UK. He is now a junior lecturer at the Institute for the History of Medicine, Freiburg, Germany.