Revisiting medicalisation and 'natural' death

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 691-704

  Seymour, Jane Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case study; Ethnography; Intensive care units; Medicalisation; Natural death; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEATH; DYING; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LITERATURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; PALLIATIVE CARE; TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0033012040     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(99)00170-7     Document Type: Article

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