The healthcare providers' experience of life and death in ICU
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2014-09-02
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Technology is, as Callahan (2003) asserted, a seductive entity, limitless in its creative possibilities; it is valued for its potential to enhance our lives, make the impossible plausible, and provide us with our coveted immortality. Through our creative endeavours we have quarantined death in hospitals, lauded those who battle against it, and perpetuated its censorship through cultural institutions such as media, religious organizations, justice systems, and even, in the healthcare industry itself. In order to understand the complexities of the healthcare provider’s experience of life and death in intensive care, the research method of analytic autoethnography was employed. The assessment of the influent social, professional, and political cultures contributed to the understanding of the intricacies of cultural behaviours and interaction to inform the research question of “what is the healthcare provider’s experience of life and death in intensive care?” Using a critical and postmodern philosophical lens allowed the researcher to decode social practices that create asymmetrical power relations, constraining ideology, and attitudes that obstruct the individual’s participation in or understanding of the social environment of ICU.
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Jenkins, J. (2014). The healthcare providers' experience of life and death in ICU (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28162