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  1. Managing Bodies, Managing Persons: Postmortem Care and the Role of the Nurse.Rebecca S. Williams - 2016 - The New Bioethics 22 (2):133-147.
    This paper addresses how interactions between UK palliative care nursing staff and the bodies of the deceased they care for function as a mechanism to help them make sense of death in line with their work as carers. Through an analysis of postmortem care rituals, I will argue that nurses play an integral role in the ‘making of the dead’, and look at how this functions in relation to their role as carers of bodies in line with associated states of (...)
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  • Enacting death: contested practices in the organ donation clinic.Hans Hadders & Anne Hambro Alnaes - 2013 - Nursing Inquiry 20 (3):245-255.
    Based on the fieldwork at two Norwegian Intensive Care Units, we wish to discuss the sometimes inconsistent manner in which death is handled, determined and made real by nurses and other healthcare personnel in high‐tech hospital situations. These discrepancies draw our attention towards different ways of attending to the dying and dead and views about appropriate or inappropriate codes of professional behaviour. As we will argue below, the analytical tools developed by Annemarie Mol are useful for sharpening our understanding of (...)
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  • Enacting death: contested practices in the organ donation clinic.Hans Hadders & Anne Hambro Alnæs - 2013 - Nursing Inquiry 20 (3):245-255.
    Based on the fieldwork at two Norwegian Intensive Care Units, we wish to discuss the sometimes inconsistent manner in which death is handled, determined and made real by nurses and other healthcare personnel in high‐tech hospital situations. These discrepancies draw our attention towards different ways of attending to the dying and dead and views about appropriate or inappropriate codes of professional behaviour. As we will argue below, the analytical tools developed by Annemarie Mol are useful for sharpening our understanding of (...)
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