附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-248) and index.
What they didn't tell you in your CPR course : The myth of CPR ; How dignified is sudden death? 1. Death awareness in the United States. The emergence of death awareness ; Hospice care ; Right-to-die movement ; The "good" death ; Toward a dignified sudden death? -- 2. The search for the best resuscitation technique. The Royal Humane Society -- The resuscitation techniques of the Royal Humane Society : The vital principle ; The Schafer technique -- Resuscitation research in the United States : Manual artificial ventilation methods ; The obstructed airway ; Mouth-to-mouth ventilation ; Chest compressions -- The origins of resuscitation beliefs -- 3. CPR for all. Professional versus lay CPR -- Patient transportation -- Consolidation of the emergency medical system -- Survival rates : The chain of survival ; Some CPR is better than no CPR ; What is survival? ; Number-to-number inflation -- The economic cost of saving lives -- Universal lifesaving -- 4. Lifesaving in action. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- Paramedics -- The emergency department -- Ritual, medicalization, and community -- 5. Deciding life and death. Reaching decisions -- Initial impression -- Dead on arrival -- The rush of the first minutes : The resuscitation team ; Retrieving clinical information ; Circumstances of the cardiac arrest ; The patient's social viability -- Resuscitation trajectories : Legal death trajectory ; Elite death trajectory ; Temporary stabilization trajectory ; Stabilization trajectory -- Social inequality of sudden death -- 6. "There is a code and a code". The routines of emergencies -- Becoming a resuscitator -- Major categories : The successful resuscitative effort ; The bad resuscitative effort ; The tragic resuscitative effort ; The non-category -- Personal philosophy -- Comfort with sudden death -- 7. Saving life or saving death? Resuscitation ethic -- More effective CPR -- Empowering relatives and friends -- Family attendance -- Final reflections.
