Year: 2014
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This dissertation examines end-of-life experiences at a small Zen hospice in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Through an exploration of how end-of-life communication, sense-making, decision-making, and care in this setting differ from that of typical clinical settings, this project highlights and interrogates the experiences of dying as spiritually, rhetorically, narratively, relationally, and communally bound events. Keywords: Zen hospice, end of life, narrative sensemaking, medical-ethical decision making, spirituality, healing rhetoric, communities of practice
Author: Ellen Wilson Klein
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1029610706
