"You Are Going to Die": Risky Truth-Telling in the Contemporary American Hospital
This paper identifies two major challenges facing nurses as they work to care well for the dying. First, American medicine operates on the presupposition that life must be maintained and suffering reduced. Life-sustaining interventions aid in this endeavour by normalising and stabilising dying bodie...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Nursing philosophy
Year: 2026, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-10 |
| Further subjects: | B
Parrhesia
B Advocacy B Narrative B Death B Foucault |
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