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Voices in Bioethics, 2015 I watched Wit this past summer out of my interest in how film can be used to explore bioethical themes, and have not stopped thinking about it since. Starring Emma Thompson as Professor Vivian Bearing, who undergoes experimental treatment for stage four ...
Julia Bolzon
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Love's Revival: Film Practice and the Art of Dying
Film-Philosophy, 2020 Dying serves so often within the narratives of Western popular culture, as an exercise in self-improvement both to the individual dying and to those looking on. It enlightens, ennobles and renders exceptional all those affected by it.
Michele Aaron
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Psychosocial Support within the Context of Perinatal Palliative Care: The “SORROWFUL” Model
Children, 2022 Against the background of a society that tends to underrate the grief experienced by parents whose infants have died prematurely, the model “SORROWFUL” is presented here with the intent to highlight the significance of the death of a newborn for the ...
Kerstin von der Hude, Lars Garten
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Brain Sciences, 2022 There has been an increase in the use of mechanical ventilation (MV) in motor neurone disease (MND) to alleviate symptoms related to hypoventilation. Little is known about its use at the end of life, and the withdrawal of MV is a challenging topic.
Eleanor Wilson +3 more
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Silent Questions: (Not) Talking about Dying in the Pearl River Delta
Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2022 This Field Notes contribution describes the difficulty of confronting the topic of dying in conversations with terminally ill persons in the Pearl River Delta region in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and how the ethnographer responded to this ...
Mira Menzfeld
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Cesta k neo-modernímu typu smrti
Historická sociologie, 2017 This text aims to trace the thematisation of death and dying in Sociology, which in the 1990’ evolves into constituion of independent sociological sub-discipline: “sociology of dying and death”.
Lenka Beranová
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Death and Dying During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Tahan Na, Humimlay
Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, 2021 Nagwakas ang araw Lupa’t dagat, langit, pumanaw Tahan na, Humimlay Siyanawa — JF Lapeña, Tahan Na, Humimlay The continuing COVID-19 pandemic has directly or indirectly claimed the lives of countless colleagues, friends, and family.
José Florencio Lapeña, Jr
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BMC NursingBackground Globally, digital transformation has been sweeping through healthcare in recent years. Reflecting this global change, Australia’s health and social care sector is also undergoing rapid digitalisation.
Priyanka Vandersman, Jennifer Tieman
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common pediatric ocular cancer, yet population‐based data on survival and risk factors remain limited. This study aimed to describe survival in a large national RB cohort and identify predictors of death and complications.
Samuel Sassine +14 more
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BMC NursingBackground The residential aged care (RAC) sector provides care to a significant number of older people across frail and vulnerable years, all the way through to death.
Priyanka Vandersman, Jennifer Tieman
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