Death and Dying in India - Ageing and End-Of-Life Care of the Elderly

Informationen zum Autor Suhita Chopra Chatterjee is a Professor in Sociology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. Her current area of interest is in the field of Death studies. She is the lead editor of Discourses on Ageing and Dying . Jaydeep Sengupta is a Doctoral candidate at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, and is formally trained in Anthropology and Development Studies. His areas of interest are Public Health and End-of-life care. Zusammenfassung This book examines different settings where elderly die, including hospitals, family homes and palliative set-ups. The discourse is set in the backdrop of international attempts to restructure and reconfigure the health delivery system for ageing population. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Poverty of Dying in India: A Comparative Landscape 2. Dying in the Homeland 3. Are Indian Hospitals Good Places for the Dying Elderly? 4. The Rhetoric of Dying in Home 5. Is Palliative Care the Answer to Care for the Dying Elderly in India? 6. The Failing Empirics of Biomedicine in Dying Matters 7. End-of-life Care: Retrieving Death from the Zone of Obscurity

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• Authors: Suhita Chopra Chatterjee, Suhita Chopra Sengupta Chatterjee, Suhita Chopra Chatterjee, Suhita (Indian Institute of Tec Chopra Chatterjee, Suhita (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Chopra Chatterjee, Suhita Sengupta Chopra Chatterjee, Jaydeep Sengupta, Jaydeep (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Sengupta, Jaydeep Chopra Chatterjee Sengupta, Sengupta Jaydeep
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2017
• EAN: 9780415403177
• ISBN: 978-0-415-40317-7
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series; Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Eldercare, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, India, Care of the elderly, Medical Sociology, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying