Love's Labor Paid for: Gift and Commodity at the Threshold of Death
Love's Labor Paid for: Gift and Commodity at the Threshold of Death
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爱的劳动得到了回报：临死前的礼物和商品
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2005
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Ann J. Russ
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作者：
Ann J. Russ
本文反思了专业照护作为礼物和商品的地位，以及它在临终关怀环境中调解生与死关系的作用。基于20世纪90年代中期对旧金山艾滋病收容所的研究，它考察了当时关于克制和限制同情心的必要性的话语是如何在付费护理人员中扎根的。它还探讨了临终关怀工作人员有时如何在努力维持和感知他们的护理价值时超越这些限制。将礼物和商品视为现象学和伦理学范畴，这篇文章通过关注人类交易中损失的中心性——甚至是可取性——来强调互惠和回报的交换理论。
This article reflects on the status of professional care as both gift and commodity and its role in mediating the relationship between life and death in hospice settings. Based on research in San Francisco AIDS hospices in the mid-1990s, it examines how a discourse about restraint and about the need to set limits to compassion took hold among paid caregivers at that time. It explores also how hospice staff sometimes transgressed those limits in an effort to maintain and perceive the value of their care. Considering gift and commodity as phenomenological and ethical categories, the article contributes to theories of exchange that have emphasized reciprocity and return by focusing instead on the centrality—even the desirability—of loss in human transactions.