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| Title |
On Euthanasia, Resistance, and Redemption
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Qualitative Health Research, September 2011
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| DOI | 10.1177/1049732311421181 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Alex Broom |
| Abstract |
Euthanasia/assisted dying, the desire to hasten death, and religious supportive care at the end of life are controversial issues that have been heavily debated within the academic and medical communities. Little research has been done on hospice patients' views, despite hospices being political spaces, espousing a range of perspectives on assisted dying, religiosity, and "good deaths." In this article I document the presence, articulation, and significance of these issues as perceived and experienced by 20 hospice inpatients in the last 4 weeks of their lives. Key themes to emerge included polarization in desire for hastened death and assisted dying in the hospice; the hospice as a morally bound space situated within particular notions of "dying well"; and the divisive character of religion as part of formalized hospice care. Theoretically, the participants' perspectives on euthanasia/assisted dying and religiosity in the hospice provide a means of unpacking and revealing the moral economy of modern dying practices and the institutional governance and production of "timely deaths." |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 5 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1 | 20% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |
| Canada | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 2 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 60% |
| Scientists | 2 | 40% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 52 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 49 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 12 | 23% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 8% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 8% |
| Other | 7 | 13% |
| Unknown | 15 | 29% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 9 | 17% |
| Psychology | 7 | 13% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 12% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 5 | 10% |
| Unspecified | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 6 | 12% |
| Unknown | 17 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 July 2017.
All research outputs
#6,858,744
of 24,855,923 outputs
Outputs from Qualitative Health Research
#716
of 1,927 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#37,528
of 130,225 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Qualitative Health Research
#7
of 32 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,855,923 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,927 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 62% of its peers.
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