NDLI: Common or multiple futures for end of life care around the world? Ideas from the 'waiting room of history'.

Content Provider	World Health Organization (WHO)-Global Index Medicus
Author	Zaman, Shahaduz Inbadas, Hamilton Whitelaw, Alexander Clark, David
Description	Author Affiliation: Zaman S ( School of Interdisciplinary Studies, The University of Glasgow, Crichton University Campus, Dumfries, DG1 4ZL, Scotland, UK. Electronic address: shahaduz.zaman@glasgow.ac.uk.); Inbadas H ( School of Interdisciplinary Studies, The University of Glasgow, Crichton University Campus, Dumfries, DG1 4ZL, Scotland, UK. Electronic address: hamilton.inbadas@glasgow.ac.uk.); Whitelaw A ( School of Interdisciplinary Studies, The University of Glasgow, Crichton University Campus, Dumfries, DG1 4ZL, Scotland, UK. Electronic address: alexander.whitelaw@glasgow.ac.uk.); Clark D ( School of Interdisciplinary Studies, The University of Glasgow, Crichton University Campus, Dumfries, DG1 4ZL, Scotland, UK. Electronic address: david.clark.2@glasgow.ac.uk.)
Abstract	Around the world there is growing interest in the manner in which care is delivered to people at the end of life. However, there is little unanimity on what constitutes a 'good death' and the appropriate societal responses to the issue of delivering culturally relevant and sustainable forms of end of life care in different settings are not subjects of broad agreement. In this critical conceptual paper we focus on the emerging narratives of global palliative care and offer an assessment of their implications. We relate this to calls to improve end of life care across jurisdictions and settings, attempts to map and grade the development of palliative care provision, and to the emergence of a widely recognised global 'quality of death index'. We consider an alternative approach to framing this debate, drawn from a subaltern and post-colonial studies perspective and suggest that adopting a truly global perspective will require acceptance of the plurality of past and present local problems and issues relating to end of life care, as well as the plural possibilities of how they might be overcome. In that context, we would not aim to universalise or privilege one particular global future for end of life care. Instead of homogenising end of life interventions, we seek to be open to multiple futures for the care of the dying.
File Format	HTM / HTML
ISSN	02779536
e-ISSN	18735347
Journal	Social Science & Medicine
Volume Number	172
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier
Publisher Date	2017-01-01
Publisher Place	Great Britain (UK)
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	health inequalities health behavior social epidemiology healthcare policy medical sociology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Medicine Health (social science) History and Philosophy of Science

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