Death in the News: The Public Invigilation of Private Emotion

Walter, Tony; Littlewood, Jane; Pickering, Michael

doi:10.1177/0038038595029004002

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“…For conceptual purposes, data are presented around two main themes: (i) the manner in which nurses monitored, regulated and invigilated, or kept a regulatory watch over (Walter at al 1995), patients' activities of daily living; and (ii) the way in which activities of daily living were mediated by a biomedical worldview in the clinical settings.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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Social regulation, medicalisation and the nurse's role: Insights from an analysis of nursing documentation

Hyde¹,

Treacy²,

Pearce³

et al. 2006

International Journal of Nursing Studies

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Background: Medicine is recognized as a dominant source of governmentality and social regulation, and although nursing has been implicated in the same process, analytical work in this area has been sparse. Objectives: The article aims to present an analysis of nursing records in order to understand the structural and social processes that mediate the texts. Methods: 45 sets of nursing records drawn from four clinical sites in Ireland were subjected to a discourse analysis. Results: This article focuses on two main themes that were derived from data: (i) the manner in which nurses controlled, regulated and invigilated patients' activities of daily living; and (ii) the way in which activities of daily living were mediated by a biomedical worldview in the clinical settings. Through the organizing framework of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), normative social practices relating to hygiene, eating and drinking, sleeping and so forth were surveyed and monitored within clinical settings. We construct qualitative categories around a range of ways that nurses assessed and judged patients' capacities at ADLs. Furthermore, it is argued that the framework of ADLs epitomises the medicalisation of normative social practices, whereupon the most mundane of normal functions becomes redefined as an actual or potential clinical pathology, legitimating nursing interventions. According to the nursing documentation, biochemical interventions in the form of various medications were the most dominant means through which nurses attempted to restore or improve the functional capacity of an ADL. Conclusion: We conclude by proposing that nurses' invigilation of patients' ADLs is not necessarily a repressive feature of nursing practice, but rather has the potential to be used to advocate on patients' behalf in certain circumstances.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social regulation, medicalisation and the nurse's role: Insights from an analysis of nursing documentation

Hyde¹,

Treacy²,

Pearce³

et al. 2006

International Journal of Nursing Studies

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“…While these attributes continue to hold in the UK, the point of cleavage has become whether the good death must be a natural death or whether it can be artificially procured. Palliative care philosophy, which occupies the mainstream in terms of an ideal-type model of end of life care, has much in common with right-to-die philosophy in that both seek to personalise and individualise dying and both emphasise that choice and control should reside with the dying person herself (Walter 1994). However, where the two movements differ is that palliative care philosophy takes the position that it seeks neither to hasten nor to postpone death (Maddocks 1996).…”

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“…It could be argued that it is in the media that Debbie's protracted dying has been recognised in its specificity, not in the court with its focus on the 'technocratic rationalities of law' (Riles 2006: 59) and where the specificities of each case must be downplayed in order to give precedence to general principles of law (Good 2008: S50-51). It is the media which challenges the so-called public absence of death (Walter et al 1995) by granting extensive coverage to extraordinary deaths such as Debbie's. ruled unanimously in the couple's favour and ordered the DPP to produce a crime-specific policy identifying the factors he was likely to take into account in deciding whether or not to consent to prosecuting a suicide assistor.…”

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Dying to go to court: Demanding a legal remedy to end-of-life uncertainty

Richards¹

2015

The Clinic and the Court

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“…The television coverage of the Hillsborough stadium disaster in 1989 caused public concern in relation to the close up images of the dead [34]. A questionnaire and discussion group survey found that British viewers overwhelmingly felt that these images were unacceptable with the majority stating the reasons that relatives of the victims might be watching and be upset, and that children might be watching [35].…”

Section: Historical Context and Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…A questionnaire and discussion group survey found that British viewers overwhelmingly felt that these images were unacceptable with the majority stating the reasons that relatives of the victims might be watching and be upset, and that children might be watching [35]. Other objections provided in relation to television images of the dead are that the images may shock or cause offence [34] and that their publication is disrespectful to the dead. Photographs showing unidentified victims of disaster have provoked a public and political response.…”

Section: Historical Context and Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

A review of the changing culture and social context relating to forensic facial depiction of the dead

Wilkinson

2014

Forensic Science International

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The recognition of a decedent by a family member is commonplace in forensic investigation and is often employed as identity confirmation. However, it is recognized that misidentification from facial recognition is also common and faces of the dead may be extremely difficult to recognize due to decomposition or external damage, and even immediate post-mortem changes may be significant enough to confuse an observer. The depiction of faces of the dead can be a useful tool for promoting recognition leading to identification and post-mortem facial depiction is described as the interpretation of human remains in order to suggest the living appearance of an individual. This paper provides an historical context relating to the changing view of society to the presentation and publication of post-mortem facial depictions and discusses the current ethical, practical and academic challenges associated with these images. We submit a paper to be considered for publication in the Forensic Science International as a review paper.The research has not been presented at any conference, nor published in any publication, nor submitted for publication to any other journal or publication.There are no conflicts of interest or publication problems, or additional information appropriate to the publication. ABSTRACTThe recognition of a decedent by a family member is commonplace in forensic investigation and is often employed as identity confirmation. However, it is recognized that misidentification from facial recognition is also common and faces of the dead may be extremely difficult to recognize due to decomposition or external damage, and even immediate post-mortem changes may be significant enough to confuse an observer. The depiction of faces of the dead can be a useful tool for promoting recognition leading to identification and post-mortem facial depiction is described as the interpretation of human remains in order to suggest the living appearance of an individual. This paper provides an historical context relating to the changing view of society to the presentation and publication of post-mortem facial depictions and discusses the current ethical, practical and academic challenges associated with these images.

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Death in the News: The Public Invigilation of Private Emotion

Cited by 115 publications

References 7 publications

Social regulation, medicalisation and the nurse's role: Insights from an analysis of nursing documentation

Social regulation, medicalisation and the nurse's role: Insights from an analysis of nursing documentation

Dying to go to court: Demanding a legal remedy to end-of-life uncertainty

A review of the changing culture and social context relating to forensic facial depiction of the dead

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