Life and Death in Intensive Care offers a unique portrait of the surgical intensive care unit (SICU), the place in medical centers and hospitals where patients with the gravest medical conditions--from comas to terminal illness--are treated. Author Joan Cassell employs the concept of "moral economies" to explain the dilemmas that patients, families, and medical staff confront in treatment. Drawing upon her fieldwork conducted in both the United States and New Zealand, Cassell compares the moral outlooks and underlying principles of SICU nurses, interns, doctors, and surgeons. Using real life examples, Life and Death in Intensive Care clearly presents the logic and values behind the SICU as well as the personalities, procedures, and pressures that characterize every case. Ultimately, Cassell demonstrates the differing systems of values, and the way cultural definitions of medical treatment inform how we treat the critically ill.
Life And Death In Intensive Care
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle.
Learn more
FREE Two-Day Shipping for Students. Learn more |
| ||||||||||||||||||||
 Sell Back Your Copy for $1.00
Whether you buy it used on Amazon for $13.74 or somewhere else, you can sell it back through our Book Trade-In Program at the current price of $1.00.
Used Price$13.74
Trade-in Price$1.00
Price after
Trade-in$12.74 |
Book Description
Special Offers and Product Promotions
- Buy $50 in qualifying physical textbooks, get $5 in Amazon MP3 Credit. Here's how (restrictions apply)
Frequently Bought Together
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Cassell's ethnographic description is lively and engaging. For the psychologist who has recently entered the medical setting, Cassell's book will be an entertaining and enjoyable educational source." PsycCRITIQUES "This is some book .It is powerful writing, with harsh (accurate) content. There are great quotes, terrific anecdotes, fiery feminism and damning observations of doctors' arrogance in dealing with family, other medical specialties, and nurses." Critical Care and Resuscitation
From the Publisher
A penetrating look at the values, systems, and life-and-death dramas in the world of the surgical intensive care unit
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Joan gets it,
By
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Life And Death In Intensive Care (Paperback)
Joan Cassell understands the system. She is tactful and diplomatic. She describes how medicine really gets done inside US hospitals...and by comparison in hospitals in New Zealand. A real eye opener for the uninitiated....and an affirmation for the insiders who always thought it was like that.
Good reading...and I hope you begin to think.....
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
(learn more)
surgical intensive care unit, one intensivist, critical care doctors, strong residents, caring ethic, trauma surgeons Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, United States, African American, Good Night, Going Gentle, Confronting Death, The Dominion of Death, The Best of Times, Worst of Times, Miss Kline, Bottom Line, Intensive Caring, Grim Reaper, Air Force, Bereavement Follow-up Service, Diverse Universes of Medical Discourse, Patient Care Director, Starling's Law, Lord Kelvin, West Ward Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
surgical intensive care unit, one intensivist, critical care doctors, strong residents, caring ethic, trauma surgeons Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, United States, African American, Good Night, Going Gentle, Confronting Death, The Dominion of Death, The Best of Times, Worst of Times, Miss Kline, Bottom Line, Intensive Caring, Grim Reaper, Air Force, Bereavement Follow-up Service, Diverse Universes of Medical Discourse, Patient Care Director, Starling's Law, Lord Kelvin, West Ward Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
So You'd Like to...
Look for Similar Items by Category
- Books > Medical Books > Medicine > Internal Medicine
- Books > Medical Books > Medicine > Surgery
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Medicine > Clinical > Critical Care
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Medicine > Clinical > Surgery > General
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Social Sciences > Sociology
- Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences
