Introduction: Moonscape: The Surgical Intensive Care Unit 1. A Caring Ethic: Nurses and the Dilemma of Powerlessness 2. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: The Residents 3. Diverse Universes of Medical Discourse: The Fellows 4. The Attendings 5. Is Death the Enemy, or Suffering? 6. Confronting Death in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit 7. Intensive Caring in New Zealand 8. Going Gentle into that Good Night: Death in Auckland 9. Focusing on the Bottom Line 10. The Dominion of Death Appendix: \"Hard\" Science, \"Soft\" Science, Social Science: The Anxiety of Methods References | Life and Death in Intensive Care by Joan Cassell, Paperback | Indigo Chapters