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Kidney Failure, Chronic , Terminal Care , Humans , Renal Dialysis , Palliative Care , Kidney Failure, Chronic/therapy , Death , Decision MakingABSTRACT
If the obligation to donate as defined by French law ("we are all donors") remains in the wake of sociologist Marcel Mauss's Essai sur le don (Essay on donation), there the similarity ends. How do you make a counter-donation to a deceased person? In the case of inter vivos organ donation, the act is more akin to mutualization than donation.
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Organ Transplantation , Tissue and Organ Procurement , Humans , Tissue Donors , Health PersonnelABSTRACT
Dialysis, kidney transplant: the weight of Words. Two treatments are available when both kidneys don't function anymore : dialysis and kidney transplant. How do patients feel about their treatments ? What are the words they use to express their relations to dialysis or transplant ? The analysis of answers written by patients in a survey organized by Renaloo shows the great diversity of the relations patients feel about their treatments. People under dialysis focus on the constraints linked to the treatment while people with transplant underline freedom and life.
Dialyse, greffe rénale : le poids des mots. Lorsque les reins ne fonctionnent plus, deux traitements sont possibles, la dialyse et la greffe. Comment les patientsvivent-ils leurs traitements ? De quels mots se servent-ils pour exprimer leurs relations à la dialyse et à la greffe ? L'analyse des réponses apportées à une question ouverte d'une enquête réalisée par Renaloo auprès des patients met en évidence la grande diversité des relations qu'ils entretiennent avec leurs traitements. Les dialysés soulignent les contraintes associées à leur traitement, tandis que les patients transplantés évoquent la vie et la liberté que leur assure la greffe.
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Kidney Transplantation , Humans , Renal Dialysis/adverse effects , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
Experienced on a personal and psychological level, work related stress nevertheless has social causes. New forms of management demand from staff an ever greater personal investment, but the growing intensification of the work often makes the missions they are given impossible to fulfil. This results in a feeling of having failed and of not being up to the job, which are in turn sources of suffering and stress.
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Occupational Stress , Sociological Factors , Stress, Psychological , Codes of Ethics , Harassment, Non-Sexual/ethics , Harassment, Non-Sexual/psychology , Harassment, Non-Sexual/statistics & numerical data , Humans , Interprofessional Relations/ethics , Job Satisfaction , Nursing Staff/ethics , Nursing Staff/psychology , Occupational Stress/epidemiology , Occupational Stress/etiology , Occupational Stress/prevention & control , Patient Care Team/ethics , Patient Care Team/organization & administration , Patient Care Team/standards , Stress, Psychological/epidemiology , Stress, Psychological/etiology , Stress, Psychological/prevention & controlABSTRACT
Treating suicide as a social fact means disregarding its individual and dramatic dimensions. Sociologists do not reason on the basis of specific cases but by studying the variations, in space and time, of suicide rates. Their contribution relates essentially to a renewed perspective on society: suicide is in fact a very accurate indicator of the intensity and quality of the bonds which unite or isolate individuals in a society.
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Sociological Factors , Suicide , Age Factors , Humans , Interpersonal Relations , Social Isolation , Socioeconomic Factors , Suicide/ethnology , Suicide/psychology , Suicide/statistics & numerical dataABSTRACT
An organ transplant raises the question of the donation and the debt and recognition of the person who receives it. Is organ donation really a gift, or could it be considered as a redistribution or a pooling of resources?
