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Time: 1 hours
Level: Intermediate
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 Introduction Resource- This unit asks the reader to consider the experience of grief and bereavement and in particular the extent to which grieving people need professional help. The unit considers the evidence for the effects...
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| | 1 Expectations and administrative pressures
- 1 Expectations and administrative pressures Resource
- The medical prognoses and diagnoses of dying raise expectations of what will actually happen to the dying person. For example, someone is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, they will be given a forecast...
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| | 2 Terminology: patients or people?
- 2 Terminology: patients or people? Resource
- In this unit ‘the patient’ has been referred to on several occasions. One reason is the universal usage of the term and the ease with which it is understood. To identify someone as a patient immediately...
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| | 3 Problems with quantification
- 3 Problems with quantification Resource
- One of the main problems with the medicalisation of death and dying is the idea that science has all the answers. Illness and dying carry the same degree of unpredictability and uncertainty as all everyday...
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| | 4 Power: the medical gaze and the management of risk
- 4 Power: the medical gaze and the management of risk Resource
- Power is an essential feature of the debate about the medicalisation of death, as western societies value knowledge and expertise and allocate authority accordingly. As highly trained professionals, medical...
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- 5 Next steps Resource
- After completing this unit you may wish to study another OpenLearn unit, here are a few suggestions:
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