Prelude to hospice : listening to dying patients and their families / Emily K. Abel.
Abel, Emily K., author.
2018
RA999.H66
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Title Prelude to hospice : listening to dying patients and their families / Emily K. Abel.
Author Abel, Emily K., author.
ISBN 9780813593951 (electronic book)
0813593956 (electronic book)
9780813593937 (electronic book)
081359393X (electronic book)
9780813593913
0813593913
9780813593920
0813593921
Published New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Copyright ©2018
Language English
Description 1 online resource (143 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number RA999.H66
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.17/56
Summary "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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Critical issues in health and medicine.
Available in Other Form Prelude to hospice.
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Introduction
Setting the stage
Doctor and nurse
Caring across cultures
Hope, blame, and acceptance
Making sense of the findings
Conclusion.

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