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Deadlines: doing times in (Dutch) hospice.
- Source :
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Mortality . Aug2019, Vol. 24 Issue 3, p319-332. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- For a person to enter a Dutch hospice as resident, a clearly articulated deadline is needed: a life expectancy of three months or less. This paper argues that this institutional timeframe of a singular, clock-timed period of more or less linearly approaching death (the end of time), affords life to unfold in hospice as a relatively clockless multitude of temporal orderings enacted by staff and residents (the time of the end). Based on a period of ethnographic fieldwork in hospices and focusgroup interviews with hospice staff, I analyse how temporal orderings manifest and intersect in different ways. The quality of these intersections presence end-of-life normativities in ways that may be instructive when designing and reflecting on end-of-life care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13576275
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Mortality
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 137166348
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2018.1461817