Graham Mcaleer

Time for Dying (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book has been written for those who must work with and give care to the dying. Our discussion is not simple narrative or description; it is a "rendition of reality," informed by a rather densely woven and fairly abstract theoretical scheme. This scheme evolved gradually during the course of our research. The second audience for this volume is social scientists who are less interested in dying than they are in useful substantive theory. Our central concern is with the temporal aspects of work. The theory presented here may be useful to social scientists interested in areas far removed from health, medicine, or hospitals. The training of physicians and nurses equips them for the technical aspects of dealing with illness.

Medical students learn not to kill patients through error, and to save lives through diagnosis and treatment. But their teachers put little or no emphasis on how to talk with dying patients; how-or whether-to disclose an impending death; or even how to approach the subject with the wives, husbands, children, and parents of the dying. Students of nursing are taught how to give nursing care to terminal patients, as well as how to give "post-mortem care." But the psychological aspects of dealing with the dying and their families are virtually absent from training. Although physicians and nurses are highly skilled at handling the bodies of terminal patients, their behavior to them otherwise is actually outside the province of professional standards. Much, if not most, nontechnical conduct toward, and in the presence of, dying patients and their families is profoundly influenced by "common sense" assumptions, essentially untouched by professional or even rational considerations or by current advancement in social-psychological knowledge. The process of dying in hospitals is much affected by professional training and codes, and by the particular conditions of work generated by hospitals as places of work. A third important consideration in int

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351471848
• Artikelnr.: 49377573

Autorenporträt

Graham McAleer, Barney Glaser

Inhaltsangabe

1: Biocultural Perspectives on Breastfeeding
2: A Time to Wean: The Hominid Blueprint for the Natural Age of Weaning in Modern Human Populations
3: Breastfeeding in Prehistory
4: The Culture and Biology of Breastfeeding: An Historical Review of Western Europe
5: Sociocultural Aspects of the Lactation Process
6: The Politics of Breastfeeding: An Advocacy Perspective
7: Beauty and the Breast: The Cultural Context of Breastfeeding in the United States
8: Baby-Controlled Breastfeeding: Biocultural Implications
9: Breastfeeding: Adaptive Behavior for Child Health and Longevity
10: Breastfeeding and Infant-Parent Co-Sleeping as Adaptive Strategies: Are They Protective against SIDS?
11: Breastfeeding, Fertility, and Maternal Condition
12: Breast Cancer, Reproductive Biology, and Breastfeeding
13: Commentary Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives
14: Commentary Breastfeeding Is More Than Just Good Nutrition
15: Commentary Breastfeeding Study Design Problems-Health Policy, Epidemiologic and Pediatric Perspectives

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1: Biocultural Perspectives on Breastfeeding; 2: A Time to Wean: The Hominid Blueprint for the Natural Age of Weaning in Modern Human Populations; 3: Breastfeeding in Prehistory; 4: The Culture and Biology of Breastfeeding: An Historical Review of Western Europe; 5: Sociocultural Aspects of the Lactation Process; 6: The Politics of Breastfeeding: An Advocacy Perspective; 7: Beauty and the Breast: The Cultural Context of Breastfeeding in the United States; 8: Baby-Controlled Breastfeeding: Biocultural Implications; 9: Breastfeeding: Adaptive Behavior for Child Health and Longevity; 10: Breastfeeding and Infant-Parent Co-Sleeping as Adaptive Strategies: Are They Protective against SIDS?; 11: Breastfeeding, Fertility, and Maternal Condition; 12: Breast Cancer, Reproductive Biology, and Breastfeeding; 13: Commentary Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives; 14: Commentary Breastfeeding Is More Than Just Good Nutrition; 15: Commentary Breastfeeding Study Design Problems-Health Policy, Epidemiologic and Pediatric Perspectives