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English term or phrase:
family triage
English answer:
selection/choice of family member
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Mapi
Oct 10, 2004 22:32
19 yrs ago
English term
family triage
English
Social Sciences
Psychology
My own research focus was directed to the pathologies of class and economic relations in reproducing sickness and untold suffering in shantytown households where an ethos of the battle field and of family triage over-determined the deaths of a great many “angel-babies”.
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selection / choice of family member
tri·age (trç-äzh', trç'äzh')
n.
A process for sorting injured people into groups based on their need for or likely benefit from immediate medical treatment. Triage is used in hospital emergency rooms, on battlefields, and at disaster sites when limited medical resources must be allocated.
A system used to allocate a scarce commodity, such as food, only to those capable of deriving the greatest benefit from it.
A process in which things are ranked in terms of importance or priority: “For millions of Americans, each week becomes a stressful triage between work and home that leaves them feeling guilty, exhausted and angry” (Jill Smolowe).
n.
A process for sorting injured people into groups based on their need for or likely benefit from immediate medical treatment. Triage is used in hospital emergency rooms, on battlefields, and at disaster sites when limited medical resources must be allocated.
A system used to allocate a scarce commodity, such as food, only to those capable of deriving the greatest benefit from it.
A process in which things are ranked in terms of importance or priority: “For millions of Americans, each week becomes a stressful triage between work and home that leaves them feeling guilty, exhausted and angry” (Jill Smolowe).
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prioritization of family members' needs and importance
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