Common or multiple futures for end of life care around the world? Ideas from the ‘waiting room of history’

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue , 2017, Pages 72-79

  Zaman, Shahaduz ^a   Inbadas, Hamilton ^a   Whitelaw, Alexander ^a   Clark, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Death and dying; End of life; Global health; Global palliative care; Post colonial theory; Quality of death; Waiting room of history

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

DEATH; HEALTH; HUMAN; NARRATIVE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; TERMINAL CARE; WAITING ROOM; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FORECASTING; GLOBAL HEALTH; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FORECASTING; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84998631719     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.11.012     Document Type: Review

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