RT Article
T1 Becoming a cucumber: Culture, nature, and the good death in Japan and the United States
JF The journal of Japanese studies
VO 29
IS 1
SP 33
OP 68
A1 Long, Susan Orpett
LA English
PB Soc.
YR 2003
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1642661732
AB 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)
K1 Tod
K1 Kultur
K1 Wert
K1 Norm : Ethik
K1 Kulturstandard
K1 Gesundheitsfürsorge
K1 Japan : Vereinigte Staaten : Tod : Kulturelle Werte und Normen : Gesundheitshilfe
K1 Japan
K1 Usa