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| S R KaufmanSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Intensive care, old age, and the problem of death in AmericaS R Kaufman
Dept of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco 94143 0646, USA
Gerontologist 38:715-25. 1998....- A commentary: hospital experience and meaning at the end of lifeSharon R Kaufman
Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0646, USA
Gerontologist 42:34-9. 2002 - Hidden places, uncommon personsSharon R Kaufman
Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, Box 0646, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0646, USA
Soc Sci Med 56:2249-61. 2003.... - Revisiting the biomedicalization of aging: clinical trends and ethical challengesSharon R Kaufman
Institute for Health and Aging, Box 0646, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0646, USA
Gerontologist 44:731-8. 2004..We argue that societal expectations about longevity and standard medical care come together today in a shifting ethics of normalcy, with unexplored socio-cultural ramifications... - Old age, life extension, and the character of medical choiceSharon R Kaufman
Institute for Health and Aging, Box 0646, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0646, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 61:S175-84. 2006.... - Making longevity in an aging society: linking Medicare policy and the new ethical fieldSharon R Kaufman
Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine and Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0646, USA
Perspect Biol Med 53:407-24. 2010..The powerful connection between the technological imperative and its ethical necessity is rarely mentioned in Medicare reform debates... - Late-life cardiac interventions and the treatment imperativeJanet K Shim
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
PLoS Med 5:e7. 2008 - Clinical life: expectation and the double edge of medical promiseJanet K Shim
University of California, CA 94143 0612, USA
Health (London) 11:245-64. 2007..This latter feature of clinical life is rarely publicly acknowledged in an environment that emphasizes medical promise... - Risk, life extension and the pursuit of medical possibilityJanet K Shim
Institute for Health and Aging, University of California San Francisco, 3333 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Sociol Health Illn 28:479-502. 2006..For practitioners and patients alike, the engagement of risk, the preservation of hope it facilitates and the routinisation of intervention it produces all contribute to the emerging mandate to treat at ever-older ages... - "Is there life on dialysis?": time and aging in a clinically sustained existenceAnn J Russ
Institute for Health and Aging, Box 0646, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143 0646, USA
Med Anthropol 24:297-324. 2005.... - Family involvement in end-of-life hospital careJeanne M Tschann
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:835-40. 2003..To examine whether the end-of-life treatment provided to hospitalized patients differed for those who had a family member present at death and those who did not... - Ironic technology: Old age and the implantable cardioverter defibrillator in US health careSharon R Kaufman
University of California, Institute for Health and Aging, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Soc Sci Med 72:6-14. 2011..Two ethnographic examples document the ways in which those factors are lived in treatment discussions and in expectations about death and longevity... - Family perceptions of prognosis, silence, and the "suddenness" of deathAnn J Russ
Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Cult Med Psychiatry 29:103-23. 2005..It reflects on the burdens of responsibility and regret posed to families by the ways communication is both conceived and evaded by different players in the hospital setting... - The value of "life at any cost": talk about stopping kidney dialysisAnn J Russ
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
Soc Sci Med 64:2236-47. 2007..That, with time, there is a transition to be made from dialysis as "treatment" to end of life care could be better explained and managed to alleviate patients' confusion and unneeded isolation...
Research Grants
- Longevity and Medical Treatment in Old AgeSHARON KAUFMAN; Fiscal Year: 2007....