Nothing More To Do: Euthanasia, General Practice, and End-of-Life Discourse in the Netherlands
Nothing More To Do: Euthanasia, General Practice, and End-of-Life Discourse in the Netherlands
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无事可做：荷兰的安乐死、全科医学和临终关怀讨论
作者：
Frances Norwood
安乐死在荷兰，自1984年以来一直是法律的，经常被谈论;然而，很少以安乐死死亡告终。例如，在2001年，在向医生提出安乐死请求的人中，只有十分之一的人死于安乐死。本文利用在一项为期15个月的民族志研究中收集的数据，对全科医生、家庭和病人进行了研究，探讨了安乐死的实践，这种实践主要是基于谈话。运用福柯的话语概念，我将研究安乐死作为一个脚本，人们如何思考，感觉，并在荷兰生命结束时采取行动，试图回答这个问题：荷兰人在谈论安乐死时在谈论什么？这篇文章的目的是提供目前无法获得的关于现代安乐死实践的民族志数据，并添加到越来越多的关于死亡，垂死和国家角色的文献中。
Euthanasia in the Netherlands, which has been legal since 1984, is often talked about; yet, only rarely does it culminate in a euthanasia death. In 2001, for example, only 1 in 10 of those who initiated a request for euthanasia with their physician died a euthanasia death. Using data gathered during a 15-month ethnographic study with general practitioners, families, and patients, this article explores the practice of euthanasia, a practice based mainly in talk. Applying a Foucauldian concept of discourse, I will examine euthanasia as a script for how people think, feel, and act at the end of Dutch life, attempting to answer the question: What are Dutch people talking about when they talk about euthanasia? This article is intended to provide ethnographic data not currently available on the modern-day practice of euthanasia and to add to a growing body of literature on death, dying, and the role of the state.