On Death without Dignity - David Moller

On Death without Dignity

The Human Impact of Technological Dying

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
116 Seiten
2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-78383-5 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
Attempts to re-humanize the inevitable biological occurrence called dying. This book says that through the advancement of medicalized technology, has come the demise of the contemporary dying process. The oncological death is reflected as failure in the part of medicine, the physician, and the hospital.
Candidly written, ""On Death Without Dignity: The Human Impact of Technological Dying"", attempts to re-humanize the inevitable biological occurrence called dying. It is Moller's view that through the advancement of medicalized technology, has come the demise of the contemporary dying process. The oncological death is reflected as failure in the part of modern medicine, the physician, and the hospital; yet the patient experiences alienation, stigma, helplessness, and normlessness. Yet as a culture the current societal approach to the dying-silent avoidance-only adds to this alienation. Society has failed to provide the necessary rules for this universal, social, and biological event.

David Moller

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introductory Précis: Jack Elinson, Ph.D.

Introduction

Technology, Meaning, and Death
Meaning of death or death of meaning

Death and Denial in Modern America

Technological Medicine, The Technocratic Physician and Human Dying

Individualism, Fellowship, and Dying
The non-communal environment
Dying and loss of fellowship

Modern Dying and Social Organization of the Hospital
The hospital as total institution
Patient alienation within the hospital

The Stigma of Dying
Identity problems: Beyond the looking-glass
The stigma of dying: Scenarios of personal terror
Sexuality and dying: Fertile ground for stigma
As the new self emerges

Approaching Omega: The Roller Coaster of Dying
The course of dying and societal forces

A Concluding Statement on Technology and the Social Isolation of Dying

A Methodological Note

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Perspectives on Death and Dying
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 240 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Notfallmedizin
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 0-415-78383-6 / 0415783836
ISBN-13 978-0-415-78383-5 / 9780415783835
Zustand Neuware
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