Sharon R. Kaufman examine l'influence profonde des hôpitaux américains sur l'expérience de fin de vie. Son travail explore comment les normes sociétales et les structures institutionnelles façonnent notre compréhension et notre perception de la mort et du mourir. À travers sa lentille anthropologique, elle découvre l'interaction complexe entre la pratique médicale et le voyage profondément personnel de la mortalité.
Sharon R. Kaufman examines the quandary of patients, families and doctors not knowing the point where enough medical treatment becomes too much treatment. A hidden chain of drivers among science, industry, new technology, and insurance spur this quandary, serving to obscure the ability to identify the difference between extraordinary and ordinary medicine.
A penetrating examination of how most Americans die today--how the patients and their families' conflicting desires about a good death collide with the politics and routines of American hospitals.