Emily K Abel

Prelude to Hospice

Florence Wald, Dying People, and Their Families

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people approaching mortality to live as fully and painlessly as possible. 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 US hospices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 139mm x 214mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780813593913
• ISBN-10: 0813593913
• Artikelnr.: 50988246

Autorenporträt

EMILY K. ABEL is professor emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles's Fielding School of Public Health. She is the author of several books, including Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles (Rutgers University Press), which won the Viseltear Prize of the Medical Section of the American Public Health Association for an Outstanding Book in the History of Public Health.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
1          Setting the Stage
2          Doctor and Nurse
3          Caring across Cultures
4          Hope, Blame, and Acceptance
5          Making Sense of the Findings
Conclusion