Joan Cassell is a Research Associate in the Department of Surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine. She is the author of Expected Miracles: Surgeons at Work (Temple), Children in the Field: Anthropological Experiences (Temple), and, most recently, The Woman in the Surgeon's Body.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Moonscape: The Surgical Intensive Care Unit. Chapter 1 A Caring Ethic: Nurses and the Dilemma of Powerlessness. Chapter 2 The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: The Residents. Chapter 3 Diverse Universes of Medical Discourse: The Fellows. Chapter 4 The Attendings. Chapter 5 Is Death the Enemy, or Suffering?. Chapter 6 Confronting Death in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit. Chapter 7 Intensive Caring in New Zealand. Chapter 8 Going Gentle into the Good Night: Death In Auckland. Chapter 9 Focusing 0n the Bottom Line. Chapter 10 The Dominion of Death. Appendix.
