Becoming a cucumber: Culture, nature, and the good death in Japan and the United States
Interview responses of patients, family members, and health care professionals and observations in health care settings in Japan and the United States are analyzed to better understand ideas that define a good death. This article compares how Americans and Japanese classify causes of death, the timi...
| Published in: | The journal of Japanese studies |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2003
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The journal of Japanese studies
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| Further subjects: | B
Cultural standard
B Health care B Usa B Japan Vereinigte Staaten Death Kulturelle Werte und Normen Gesundheitshilfe B Japan B Value B Death B Norm Ethics B Culture |
| Summary: | Interview responses of patients, family members, and health care professionals and observations in health care settings in Japan and the United States are analyzed to better understand ideas that define a good death. This article compares how Americans and Japanese classify causes of death, the timing and place of dying, and questions of pain and burden. Although people in both countries define a good death in broadly similar ways, their metaphors are derived from culturally constructed views of "nature" and of what it means to be human. Such notions do not determine how people actually die, but are the lens through which people interpret their own dying and that of others. (J Jpn Stud/DÜI) |
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| ISSN: | 0095-6848 |
| Contains: | In: The journal of Japanese studies
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