Prolonger la vie ou envisager la mort ? Quelques enjeux de la prise de décision lors de maladies graves

In hospitals, life and death are closely linked and engage multiple questions in regards to quality of life and death issues, choices (pursuit or withdrawal of life sustaining interventions), decision-making and the legitimacy of the people involved in this process (patients, families, caregivers)....

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Main Authors: Sylvie Fortin, Josiane Le Gall, Geneviève Dorval
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Association Anthropologie Médicale Appliquée au Développement et à la Santé 2016-06-01
Series:Anthropologie & Santé
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/2081
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description In hospitals, life and death are closely linked and engage multiple questions in regards to quality of life and death issues, choices (pursuit or withdrawal of life sustaining interventions), decision-making and the legitimacy of the people involved in this process (patients, families, caregivers). In this paper, we share our thoughts on the challenges and issues raised by decision-making in critical illness contexts. Stemming from our ethnographic work in Quebec and Canadian hospital settings, the issues raised in this paper embrace the multiplicity of actors involved in this decision making process, a process crossed with uncertainty. We question the norms and values enacted in this context and how, ultimately, therapeutic paths become a space where different moral worlds can meet.
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spellingShingle Sylvie Fortin
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Geneviève Dorval
Prolonger la vie ou envisager la mort ? Quelques enjeux de la prise de décision lors de maladies graves
Anthropologie & Santé
decision-making
uncertainty
serious illness
plural norms
ethics
title Prolonger la vie ou envisager la mort ? Quelques enjeux de la prise de décision lors de maladies graves
title_full Prolonger la vie ou envisager la mort ? Quelques enjeux de la prise de décision lors de maladies graves
title_fullStr Prolonger la vie ou envisager la mort ? Quelques enjeux de la prise de décision lors de maladies graves
title_full_unstemmed Prolonger la vie ou envisager la mort ? Quelques enjeux de la prise de décision lors de maladies graves
title_short Prolonger la vie ou envisager la mort ? Quelques enjeux de la prise de décision lors de maladies graves
title_sort prolonger la vie ou envisager la mort quelques enjeux de la prise de decision lors de maladies graves
topic decision-making
uncertainty
serious illness
plural norms
ethics
url https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/2081
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