El mundo de las unidades de cuidados intensivos: la última frontera

Identifier:  TDX:1506

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX1506

Authors:  Pallarès Martí, Àngela

Abstract:
This investigation confirms the hypothesis that there are an own culture of intensive care units through an ethnography developed by means of participanting observation and interviewing to main actors of these services: doctors, patients and families. The main results allow to analysis both physical and symbolic geography of these units, tipologies and interactions of actors with special highlights in communicative process like relational axis. The secondary results of this field work develop new aspects of these services as the groups of self-help between the relatives and helping possibilities of social researcher in order to facilitate the adaptive process of patients and relatives. The present services are hostages of their history since the paradigm who represent is consequence of a endogamic construction carried out by the own specialists under the perspective of the hegemonic medical model. technology that also helps and maintains to the patients causes barriers of understandings difficult to be able to transfer for these families generating a conflict between the emergent values of our society and the main praxis of these services generating the necessity to improve institutional understanding of demands of patients and its families.