Values at the End of Life : : The Logic of Palliative Care / / Roi Livne.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
• VerfasserIn: Livne, Roi,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Introduction: The New Economy of Dying --; 1. The Palliative Care Gaze --; 2. Financial Economization --; 3. What the Dying Want --; 4. Making the Dying Subject --; 5. Goat Taming --; Conclusion: Toward a Sociology of Economization --; Methodology --; Notes --; References --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674239869; 9783110737769; 9783110610765; 9783110610130; 9783110606485; 9783110652031
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674239869
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Roi Livne.

Once defiant of death—or even in denial—many American families and health care professionals are embracing the notion that a life consumed by suffering may not be worth living. Sociologist Roi Livne documents the rise and effectiveness of hospice and palliative care, and the growing acceptance that less treatment may be better near the end of life.