"Det här är inte ett hospice" : Konstruktioner av död och döende på en avdelning för palliativ vård / "This is not a hospice" : Constructions of death and dying at a palliative care clinic

Description

The study aims to analyze conceptions of death and dying at a clinic for palliative care, using a constructivist perspective and a discourse analytical approach. The empirical material consists of interviews with staff members, documents and photographs of the environment, taking both space and materiality into account. I conclude that the studied practice is mainly characterized by a tension between a caring discourse and a medical discourse.

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1. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-94228

Tags

palliative care

dying

discourse

social constructivism

secularization

medicalization

palliativ vård

döende

diskurs

socialkonstruktivism

sekularisering

medikalisering

Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:liu-94228
Date	January 2013
Creators	Björklund, Daniel
Publisher	Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudier, Linköpings universitet, Filosofiska fakulteten
Source Sets	DiVA Archive at Upsalla University
Language	Swedish
Detected Language	English
Type	Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Format	application/pdf
Rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess