Progrès de la médecine, progrès technologiques et pratiques cliniques : les soignants se racontent

Anthropologie & Santé

关键词: clinical practices;    end of life;    norms and values;    technology;   

DOI  :  10.4000/anthropologiesante.1015

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Stemming from an anthropological study of clinical practices in tertiary health care institutions, our paper focuses on challenges brought by medical and technological progress in paediatric intensive care units (acute) and oncology units (chronic). This progress affects clinicians and nurses daily, posing challenges for which there are no ‘easy’ solutions. Norms and values surface in these clinical settings where issues regarding life, quality of life and death are part of everyday practice. A paediatric hospital is certainly a place where all hopes are warranted, but it is also a place where death must be acknowledged. Death is in fact often a question of choice as it almost always avoidable. Through the testimonies of health care professionals and our own field observations, we offer a discussion on the “end of life” in a clinical setting in dialogue with medical and technological progress that makes end of life a decision, albeit a hard one to make. These different testimonies will show how rationalities, converging or diverging, and norms and values, at odds or similar, are played out in the social space of the clinic.

【 授权许可】

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