Images of death and dying in the intensive care unit

Journal of Medical Humanities

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 219-236

  Pascalev, Assya ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPATHY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LITERATURE; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MEDICINE; MENTAL STRESS; PAIN; PASSIVE EUTHANASIA; PATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TORTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNITED STATES; WAR;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMPATHY; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HISTORY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MEDICAL FUTILITY; MEDICINE; METAPHOR; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL VALUES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERMINALLY ILL; TORTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VALUE OF LIFE; WAR; WESTERN WORLD; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0030348190     PISSN: 10413545     EISSN: 15733645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02276870     Document Type: Review

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