@article{22573/ctv1fj0x5,
      recid = {843200},
      author = {Abel, Emily K.,},
      title = {Prelude to hospice : listening to dying patients and their  families /},
      number = {22573/ctv1fj0x5},
      pages = {1 online resource (143 pages) :},
      abstract = {"Award-winning medical historian Emily K. Abel provides  insight into several important issues surrounding the  growth of hospice care. Using a unique set of records,  Prelude to Hospice expands our understanding of the history  of U.S. hospices. Compiled largely by Florence Wald, the  founder of the first U.S. hospice, the records provide a  detailed account of her experiences studying and caring for  dying people and their families in the late 1960s and early  1970s. Although Wald never published a report of her  findings, she often presented her material informally. Like  many others seeking to found new institutions, she believed  she could garner support only by demonstrating that her  facility would be superior in every respect to what  currently existed. As a result, she generated inflated  expectations about what a hospice could accomplish. Wald's  records enable us to glimpse the complexities of the work  of tending to dying people"--Provided by publisher.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/843200},
}