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Accompanying death, organising the end of life
[Accompagner la mort, organiser la fin de vie]

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  • Marie-Astrid Le Theule

    (LIRSA - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en sciences de l'action - CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM])

  • Caroline Lambert

    (HEC Montréal - HEC Montréal)

  • Jérémy Morales

    (King‘s College London)

Abstract

This paper studies the organisation of death in a hospital. Beyond ethical issues, we examine the technical, professional, and sociological stakes of the management of end of life situations. Through an ethnographic study we followed geriatricians and their efforts to organise a ‘good' death. We show that this invisible work aims at organising the passage toward a "natural" and "confortable" death, a death that is not only "peaceful" but also accompanied.

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  • Marie-Astrid Le Theule & Caroline Lambert & Jérémy Morales, 2017. "Accompanying death, organising the end of life [Accompagner la mort, organiser la fin de vie]," Post-Print hal-03654015, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03654015
    DOI: 10.3166/rfg.2017.00121
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