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van Beinum A, Hornby L, Scales N, Shemie SD, Dhanani S. Autoresuscitation and clinical authority in death determination using circulatory criteria. Soc Sci Med 2022; 301:114904. [PMID: 35306268 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2021] [Revised: 03/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Amanda van Beinum
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K1H 5B2, Canada; Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada.
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- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K1H 5B2, Canada; Canadian Blood Services, 1800 Alta Vista Dr., Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 4J5, Canada
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- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, 725 Parkdale Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 4E9, Canada
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- Canadian Blood Services, 1800 Alta Vista Dr., Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 4J5, Canada; Montreal Children's Hospital, 1001 Decarie Blvd, Montreal, Quebec, H4A 3J1, Canada; McGill University Health Centre and Research Institute, 1001 Decarie Blvd, Montreal, Quebec, H4A 3J1, Canada
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- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K1H 5B2, Canada; Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K1H 5B2, Canada; Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Roger Guindon Hall, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K1H 8M5, Canada
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Bea S. Assembling organ donation: situating organ donation in hospital practice. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS 2020; 42:1934-1948. [PMID: 32856332 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2020] [Revised: 06/03/2020] [Accepted: 07/28/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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In this article I argue for the need to situate deceased organ donation in and as a hospital practice. This study puts the spotlight on the practical conditions that enable and emplace organ donation in the hospital setting. The analytical move serves the political purpose to inform and interrogate dominant policy framings intended to address the problem of organ shortage. I present an ethnographic investigation that draws upon a Science and Technology Studies (STS) approach to make visible the sociomaterial arrangements that bring together people, things and politics in the assembling of organ donation at a Catalan hospital. A progressive and indeterminate process which might fall through and become disassembled at any given time. This, as I explain, challenges current opt-out policy that unnecessarily reduces donation to an individual choice to be decided upon in life. Instead, and drawing on ethnographic materials, I propose a situated and relational understanding of organ donation: an embedded health care and procurement practice enacted as a collective accomplishment. I conclude that (more) responsible donation policies need to be informed by, and attuned to, the situated practicalities and enduring tensions that condition and constrain the assembling of organ donation at the hospital setting.
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- Sara Bea
- Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, School of Global Affairs, Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy, King's College London, London, UK
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Dicks SG, Ranse K, Northam H, Boer DP, van Haren FM. The development of a narrative describing the bereavement of families of potential organ donors: A systematic review. Health Psychol Open 2017; 4:2055102917742918. [PMID: 29379629 PMCID: PMC5779939 DOI: 10.1177/2055102917742918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Families of potential post-mortem organ donors face various challenges in the unfamiliar hospital context and after returning home. This review of sources published between 1968 and 2017 seeks to understand their journey as a bereavement experience with a number of unique features. Grief theory was used to identify ways that staff can assist family members to tolerate ambiguities and vulnerabilities while contributing to an environment characterised by compassion and social inclusion. Staff can guide families and create opportunities for meaningful participation, building resilience and developing bereavement-related skills that could assist them in the months that follow.
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- University of Canberra, Australia.,Australian National University, Australia
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