Slowing Down Medicine
The Plural Worlds of Hospice Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2645366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lilly Lerer (0000-0001-9189-4991, University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-61 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology & Aging (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2374-2267 • E-ISSN: 2374-2267 |
| Publisher | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5195/aa.2015.64 |
| OpenAlex | W1888430201 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
This ethnography reflects on a non-profit hospice care organization in the Midwestern US where caregivers 'slow down' medical care by acknowledging the plurality of forces that constitute the illness experience, philosophically departing from their biomedical, non-hospice counterparts. It demonstrates the ontological effect of 'slowing down' and attending to a set of patient problems that extends beyond the biological, or any distinct, domain. The result is a medical world that privileges the embodied, lived expression of disease-rather than the statistical, clinical expression-resulting in medical care that is enmeshed in the variables of everyday life. I therefore situate hospice care in a historical moment witnessing the emergence of a sophisticated and 'non-modern' (Latour 1991) form of medical care
Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ethnography · Health care · Hospice care · Medical care · Palliative care · Plural · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Patient Dignity and Privacy · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |