Patricia Gillespie
Biographic Data
| ID | 4215340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Gillespie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillespie |
| SIGNATURE | GILLESPIE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
This Is What a Clinical Death Looks Like
Sickness, dying, and ageing are increasingly medicalized, focusing elder quality of life on interventions, that I argue, progressively strip autonomy, dignity, and privacy. For elders aged 70 plus years, personal autonomy, or the ability to “author” one’s circumstances, is poorly understood, and in clinical settings, often ethically vexatious. What matters to elders, as they approach end-of-life I argue, could be more meaningfully understood and …
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This Is What a Clinical Death Looks Like
Sickness, dying, and ageing are increasingly medicalized, focusing elder quality of life on interventions, that I argue, progressively strip autonomy, dignity, and privacy. For elders aged 70 plus years, personal autonomy, or the ability to “author” one’s circumstances, is poorly understood, and in clinical settings, often ethically vexatious. What matters to elders, as they approach end-of-life I argue, could be more meaningfully understood and …
Autonomy (1 work) · Dignity (1 work) · Experiential learning (1 work) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Medicine (1 work) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (1 work) · Nursing (1 work) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (1 work) · Pedagogy (1 work)