Legitimating do-not-resuscitate orders: A discursive study of cancer patients' speech

Journal of Palliative Care

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 100-106

  Eliott, Jaklin A ^a   Olver, Ian N ^a  

^a ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DYING; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; OUTPATIENT; RESUSCITATION; TAPE RECORDER;

EID: 0141463950     PISSN: 08258597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/082585970301900205     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. Ebell MH, Doukas DJ, Smith MA. The do-not-resuscitate order: a comparison of physician and patient preferences and decision-making. Am J Med 1991; 91: 255-260.
2. Niemann JT. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation. N Engl J Med 1992; 327: 1075-1080.
3. Doyal L, Wilsher D. Withholding CPR: proposals for formal guidelines. Br Med J 1993; 306: 1593-1596.
4. Bains J. From reviving the living to raising the dead: the making of cardiac resuscitation. Soc Sci Med 1998; 47: 1341-1349.
5. Hayward M. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: are practitioners being realistic? Br J Nurs 1999; 8: 810-814.
6. Mello M, Jenkinson C. Comparison of medical and nursing attitudes to resuscitation and patient autonomy between a British and an American teaching hospital. Soc Sci Med 1998; 46: 15-24.
7. Middlewood S, Gardner G, Gardner A. Dying in hospital: medical failure or natural outcome? J Pain Symptom Manage 2001; 22:1035-1041.
8. Torda TA, Gerber P. To resuscitate or not to resuscitate, that is the question. Med J Aust 1989; 151: 243-245.
9. Resnick L, Cowart ME, Kubrin A. Perceptions of do-not-resuscitate orders. Soc Work Health Care 1998; 26: 1-21.
10. Haines EE, Zaleberb J, Buchanan JD. Not-for-resuscitation orders in cancer patients - principles of decision-making. Med J Aust 1990; 153: 225-229.
11. Tomlinson T, Brody H. Futility and the ethics of resuscitation. JAMA 1990; 264: 1276-1280.
12. Yarling RR, McElmurry BJ. Rethinking the nurse's role in "do-not-resuscitate" orders: a clinical policy proposal in nursing ethics. Adv Nurs Sci 1983; 29: 1-12.
13. Burman E, Parker I. Introduction - discourse analysis: the turn to the text. In: Parker I, Burman E (eds). Discourse Analytic Research: repertoires and readings of texts in action. London: Routledge, 1993; pp. 1-16.
14. Potter J, Wetherell M. Discourse and Social Psychology: beyond attitudes and behaviour. London: Sage, 1987.
15. Parker I. Discourse Dynamics: critical analysis for social and individual psychology. London, New York: Routledge, 1992; pp. xiii-169.
16. Olver IN, Eliott JA, Blake-Mortimer J. Cancer patients' perceptions of do-not-resuscitate orders. Psychooncology 2002; 11: 181-187.
17. Qualitative Solutions and Research L. QSR NUD*IST. Melbourne: Qualitative Solutions and Research, 1997.
18. Grbich C. Qualitative Research in Health: an introduction. St Leonards, Australia: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd, 1999.
19. Eliott JA, Olver IN. The discursive properties of "hope": a qualitative analysis of cancer patients' speech. Qual Health Res 2002; 12: 173-193.
20. Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs AMA. Decisions near the end of life. JAMA 1992; 267: 2229-2233.
21. Ariès P. The Hour of Our Death. London: Allen Lane, 1981.
22. Davis S. Towards a conclusion. In: Cronon W. (ed). Uncommon Ground: toward reinventing nature. London: W.W. Norton and Company, 1995.
23. Lupton D. Medicine as Culture: illness, disease and the body in Western societies. London: Sage, 1994.
24. Charmaz K. The Social Reality of Death: death in contemporary America. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1980.
25. Illich I. The political uses of natural death. In: Steinfel P, Veatch RM (eds). Death Inside Out. New York: Harper and Row, 1974.
26. Ott BB, Neiswiadomy RM. Support of patient autonomy in the do-not-resuscitate decision. Heart Lung 1991; 20: 66-72.
27. Ventres W, Nichter M, Reed R, Frankel R. Do-not-resuscitate discussions: a qualitative analysis. Fam Pract Res J 1992; 12: 157-169.
28. Metcalf P, Huntington R. Celebrations of Death: the anthropology of mortuary ritual. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
29. Nanda S. Death from a cross-cultural perspective. In: Backer BA, Hannon NR, Russell NA (eds). Death and Dying: understanding and care. New York: Delmar Publishers Inc., 1994; pp. 313-338.
30. Pugh JF. The semantics of pain in Indian culture and medicine. Cult Med Psychiatry 1992; 15: 19-43.
31. Bleich JD. The obligation to heal in the Judaic tradition. In: Rosner F, Bleich JD (eds). Jewish Bioethics. New York: Hebrew Publishing Company, 1979.
32. Williams R. Problems of Materialism and Culture: selected essays by Raymond Williams. London: Verso, 1980.
33. Daston L. The naturalized female intellect. In: Graumann CF, Gergen KJ (eds). Historical Dimensions of Psychological Discourse. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
34. Billig M. Arguing and Thinking: a rhetorical approach to social psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
35. Coward R. The Whole Truth: the myth of alternative health. London: Faber and Faber, 1989.
36. Foucault M. The Birth of the Clinic: an archaeology of medical perception. London: Tavistock, 1976.
37. Cook D. Patient autonomy versus parentalism. Crit Care Med 2001; 29: 24-25.
38. Cordingley L, Webb C. Independence and aging. Rev Clin Gerontol 1997; 7: 137-146.
39. Tomlinson T, Brody H. Ethics and communication in do-not-resuscitate orders. N Engl J Med 1988; 318: 43-46.
40. Callahan D. Necessity, futility and the good society. J Am Geriatr Soc 1994; 42: 866-867.
41. Pearlman RA. Medical futility: where do we go from here? J Am Geriatr Soc 1994; 42: 904-905.
42. Beauchamp TL, Childress JF. Principles of Biomedical Ethics. New York: Oxford, 1994.
43. Gillon R. Principles of Health Care Ethics. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
44. Blackball LJ, Frank G, Murphy ST, Michel V, Palmer JM, Azen SP. Ethnicity and attitudes towards life sustaining technology. Soc Sci Med 1999; 48: 1779-1789.
45. Pearlman RA, Patrick DL, Uhlmann RF, Cain KC. Validity of treatment preferences. Gerontologist 1988; 32: 58.
46. Billig M, Condor S, Edwards D, Gane M, Middleton D, Radley A. Ideological Dilemmas: social psychology of everyday thinking. London: Sage, 1988.
47. Varma VK. Culture, personality and psychotherapy. Int J Soc Psychiatry 1988; 43: 142-149.
48. Frank G, Blackball LJ, Michel V, Murphy ST, Azen SP, Park K. A discourse of relationships in bioethics: patient autonomy and end-of-life decision making among elderly Korean Americans. Med Anthropol Q 1998; 12: 403-423.
49. Kakar S. The Inner World: a psychoanalytic study of childhood and society in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1978.
50. Gergen KJ. The Saturated Self: dilemmas of identity in contemporary life. United States: Basic Books, 1991.
51. Gergen KJ. Realities and Relationships: soundings in social construction. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1994.
52. Donchin A. Autonomy and interdependence: quandaries in genetic decision making. In: Mackenzie C, Stoljar N (eds). Relational Autonomy: feminist perspectives on autonomy, agency, and the social self. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000; pp. 236-258.
53. Sampson EE. Psychology and the American ideal. J Pers Soc Psychol 1977; 35: 767-782.
54. Luce JM. Special article. Physicians do not have a responsibility to provide futile or unreasonable care if a patient or family insists. Crit Care Med 1995; 23: 760-766.
55. Miles S, Cranford R, Schultz A. The do-not-resuscitate order in a teaching hospital: consideration and a suggested policy. Ann Intern Med 1982; 96: 660-664.
56. Luttrell S. Decisions relating to cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Commentary 2: some concerns. J Med Ethics 2001; 27: 319-320.
57. Marco CA, Bessman ES, Schoenfeld CN, Kelen GD. Ethical issues of cardiopulmonary resuscitation: current practice among emergency physicians. Acad Emerg Med 1997; 49: 898-904.
58. Smedira NG, Fink C, Luce JM. [Letter] N Engl J Med 1990; 322: 1892.
59. Watt H. Decisions relating to cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Commentary 3: degrading lives? J Med Ethics 2001; 27: 321-323.
60. Schneider CE. The Practice of Autonomy: patients, doctors, and medical decisions. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
61. Olver IN. A "Highest Value on Life" Ethic for Life or Death Decision Making. Philosophy Department, Faculty of Arts. Melbourne: Monash University, 1996; p. 259.
62. Sampson EE. Deconstructing psychology's subject. J Mind Behav 1983; 4: 135-164.
63. Derrida J. Of Grammatology. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1976.
64. Lizza JP. Persons and death: what's metaphysically wrong with our current statutory definition of death? J Med Philos 1993; 18: 351-374.
65. Taylor C. The person. In: Carrithers M, Collins S, Lukes S (eds). The Category of the Person. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985; pp. 257-281.
66. Hallam E, Hockey J, Howarth G. Beyond the Body: death and social identity. London: Routledge, 1999.
67. Allen-Burge R, Haley WE. Individual differences and surrogate medical decisions: differing preferences for life-sustaining treatments. Aging Ment Health 1997; 1: 121-131.
68. Eliott J, Olver I. Perceptions of "good palliative care" orders: a discursive study of cancer patients' comments. J Palliat Med [In press].
69. Blackhall LJ, Murphy ST, Frank G, Michel V, Azen S. Ethnicity and attitudes towards patient autonomy. JAMA 1995; 274: 820-825.