Semino, E;
Demjén, Z;
Koller, V;
(2014)
'Good' and 'bad' deaths: Narratives and professional identities in interviews with hospice managers.
Discourse Studies
, 16
(5)
pp. 667-685.
10.1177/1461445614538566.
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Abstract
This article explores the formal and functional characteristics of narratives of 'good' and 'bad' deaths as they were told by 13 UK-based hospice managers in the course of semi-structured interviews. The interviewees' responses include a variety of remarkably consistent 'narratives of successful/frustrated intervention', which exhibit distinctive formal characteristics in terms of the starting point and core of the action, the choice of personal pronouns and metaphors, and the ways in which positive and negative evaluation is expressed. In functional terms, the hospice managers' narratives play an important role in representing and constructing their professional views, challenges and identities. Overall, the narratives argue for the role of hospices and professional hospice staff in facilitating a 'good' death, and, by presenting a relatively unified view, may potentially preclude alternative perspectives.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | 'Good' and 'bad' deaths: Narratives and professional identities in interviews with hospice managers |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1461445614538566 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461445614538566 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2014. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm). |
| Keywords: | Death and dying, end of life; narrative; professional identities; tellability |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1530112 |
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