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Dying: A SociAl PerSPective on the enD of life For Sarah Dying: A Social Perspective on the End of Life Alex Broom University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia © Alex Broom 2015 All rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy- ing, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Alex Broom has asserted his right under the copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing limited Ashgate Publishing company Wey court east 110 cherry Street Union road Suite 3-1 farnham Burlington, vt 05401-3818 Surrey, gU9 7Pt USA england www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Broom, Alex. Dying : a social perspective on the end of life / by Alex Broom. pages cm includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4094-5373-4 (hardback) – ISBN 978-1-4094-5374-1 (ebook) – ISBN 978-1-4724-0702-3 (epub) 1. Death – Social aspects. 2. Death – Psychological aspects. 3. Bereavement. i. title. hQ1073.B76 2015 306.9–dc23 ISBN 9781409453734 (hbk) ISBN 9781409453741 (ebk – PDF) ISBN 9781472407023 (ebk – ePUB) Printed in the United Kingdom by henry ling limited, at the Dorset Press, Dorchester, Dt1 1hD Contents List of Abbreviations vii Acknowledgements ix 1 Introduction 1 2 Time to Die? Breaking the News of Futility and the End of Life 21 3 A Place for Dying 39 4 The Moralities and Politics of Dying in a Hospice 57 5 Families and Dying 75 6 Nursing the Dying 91 7 Dying, Healing and Survivorship 109 8 Gender and the Moralities of Dying 125 9 The Dying Body 141 10 Conclusion 155 References 161 Index 183 This page has been left blank intentionally List of Abbreviations AMA Australian Medical Association BMA British Medical Association CAM Complementary and Alternative Medicine CPG Clinical Practice Guidelines EBHC Evidence based healthcare EBM Evidence based medicine EBP Evidence based practice GP General Practitioner NHS National Health Service WHO World Health Organization YIMP Years in medical practice This page has been left blank intentionally Acknowledgements This book was supported by funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC), namely, an ARC Future Fellowship (FT100100294) and an ARC Linkage Grant (LP120200268). Without this funding the writing of this book would not have been possible. I acknowledge the support of Assa Doron and Damien Ridge in commenting on various chapter drafts. Thanks to Suvena Sethi, for your constant support throughout the entire process of writing the manuscript. I’d like to thank Sarah, Jen, Alison and Brian for being lifelong sources of encouragement and support. Colleagues who contributed significantly to the broader program of research, which I often draw on implicitly or explicitly in this book, include Emma Kirby, Jon Adams, Phillip Good and Julia Wootton, Janet Hardy and Patsy Yates. Finally, to the participants in the studies I draw on here, I thank you once again for giving your valuable (and often limited) time to assist in developing the ideas presented in the following pages. I note that some parts of particular chapters in this book draw from previously published material and thus the following acknowledges these works. Parts of Chapter 2 were originally published in Social Science & Medicine, 2013, 78(1): 9–16, DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.11.008. Parts of Chapter 3 were originally published in Health, 2011, 15(1): 96–111, DOI: 10.1177/1363459309360797. Parts of Chapter 4 were originally published in Qualitative Health Research, 2012, 22(2): 226–37, DOI: 10.1177/1049732311421181. Parts of Chapter 5 were originally published in the Sociology of Health and Illness, 2013, 35(4): 499–513. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01497.x. Parts of Chapter 6 were originally published in Qualitative Health Research, 2014, DOI: 1049732314553123. Parts of Chapter 8 were originally published in Social Science & Medicine, 2010, 71(5): 869–76. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.05.026.
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