Döden på plejehjem - en Foucault inspireret analyse af diskurser om döden og pleje af döende på
danske plejehjem i dette årtusinde.
Engelsk titel: Death in nursing home - a Foucault inspired analysis of the discourses of death and caring for the
dying in Danish nursing homes in this millennium
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Författare:
Tind Nielsen, Karen
;
Glasdam, Stinne
Email: KATI@phmetropol.dk
Språk: Dan
Antal referenser: 67
Dokumenttyp:
Översikt
UI-nummer: 11057563
Sammanfattning
Aim: The aim of this study is to explore the discourses of the death of elderly in nursing homes from a Danish perspective in this millennium.
Methods: A discourse analysis inspired by Foucault was constructed. The material consists of an extensive range of source documents which
includes studies of deaths in nursing homes, newspaper articles, theses, books etc.; 37 sources in total.
Results and conclusion: Findings show that the medical discourse about death in nursing homes is the dominating and underlying discourse,
although the caring and the social critical discourses attempt to speak against it. Professional caregivers have a self-representation as
guardian angels and mostly talk from a religious discourse, but it is shown how the discourse is operationalized into the medical discourse.
The economical/political discourse takes part in the death in nursing home by dictating standards and laws as well as making rational
priorities which the death in nursing homes manifest itself.