Nursing Stories
Nicholas Eschenbruch
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Description for Nursing Stories
Hardback. Focusing on terminally ill people in a German hospice, this study addresses the question, how meaningful experience is constructed for these patients in an attempt to preserve their dignity as persons. It is based on material from diary texts and active participation of the author in the role of a nurse. Series: New Directions in Anthropology. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JFSP31; MBP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in Anthropology
Number of Pages
148
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845451516
SKU
V9781845451516
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Ref
99-15
About Nicholas Eschenbruch
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.
Reviews for Nursing Stories
“Eschenbruch provides with Nursing Stories a fine and very reflexive ethnographic study of the peculiar social world [of the hospice]…and an explanatory model of the predominant conditions.” · Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale