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No Choice without Care: Palliative Care as a Relational Matter, the Case of Ireland
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Date Issued
2017-01-01
Date Available
2018-11-26T10:22:42Z
Abstract
In recent years, choice and autonomy have been prioritized as key quality indicators in palliative care services. This article examines current palliative care discourses with respect to patient choice. While recognizing the importance of personal autonomy, using evidence from Ireland, this article explores how a discourse on choice can contribute to inequalities in palliative care because it fails to take account of pre-existing structural inequalities, human relationality, and bodily decline. This article proposes a relational approach to care that takes account not only of the relational lives in those in need of care but also of their careers.
Sponsorship
Health Research Board
Other Sponsorship
All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care - Social Justice Project
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Penn State University Press
Journal
Soundings
Volume
100
Issue
4
Start Page
353
End Page
374
Copyright (Published Version)
2017 The Pennsylvania State University
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0038-1861
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