Not intervening as a form of care: Negotiating medical practices at the end‐of‐life.
Biomedicine is organized around interventions. Despite growing concern about overtreatment in healthcare systems, not intervening can still raise questions about potential negligence and the quality of care. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with palliative care teams in England, we explore the work p...
| Publicado en: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 1 - 14 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2025
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