The Intimate Palliative Sphere: Affect, Gender, and the Good Death in Relational End-of-Life Narratives
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Collaborative end-of-life memoirs highlight how relationships, gender, and emotions influence palliative care and the concept of a "good death." These narratives promote dying at home, challenging traditional healthcare models.
Area Of Science
- Sociology
- Cultural Studies
- Medical Humanities
Background
- Collaborative end-of-life narratives are increasingly published posthumously.
- Contemporary German popular culture features women's end-of-life memoirs.
Purpose Of The Study
- To examine how relationality, gender, and affectivity shape palliative care and the
- good death
- concept.
- To analyze the role of these memoirs in contemporary healthcare discourse.
Main Methods
- Qualitative analysis of two women's end-of-life memoirs.
- Focus on themes of relationality, gender, and affectivity.
Main Results
- Memoirs foreground a marginal narrative of dying at home within an "intimate public sphere" of palliation.
- This challenges traditional healthcare approaches to end-of-life care.
Conclusions
- These narratives contribute to gendered and sentimental notions of family care.
- They emphasize a self-determined and autonomous body and death.
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