Marketing Palliative Care explores what happens when marketing is
confronted with dying. Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research in
palliative contexts across Switzerland, Italy, and the United States,
the book unfolds a radical question: can marketing grasp dying? Can it
offer not only tools but also a language for societies to relate to
finitude? Through the case study of a COVID-designated hospital in
Locarno, the conceptualization of the temporal consumer, and the
unveiling of palliative clearings, this monograph develops a new
epistemology of marketing at the threshold of life. Palliative
clearings are proposed as fragile temporal spaces where care,
consumption, and dying converge, opening a poetic vocabulary for
fragility and compassion. Methodologically, the book advances an
ethnography of dying, grounded in reflexivity and poetic inquiry.
Theoretically, it reimagines the consumer as a temporal being shaped
by mortality. Practically, it introduces the figures of the
experiential assistant, the brand healer, and the healing brand as
ways of translating compassion into organizational life and society.
Bridging marketing, medical humanities, and palliative care, Marketing
Palliative Care will speak to scholars, healthcare professionals, and
all those seeking a vocabulary for dying in market society.
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Ethnography of Dying and the Emergence of Palliative Marketing
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781040828281
Publisert
2025
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter