Award-winning medical historian Emily K. Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care, including the relationships between doctors and patients at a time when a growing number of patients began to feel emboldened to challenge medical authority, demanding information about diagnosis and treatment and participation in decision-making.
Award-winning medical historian Emily K. Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care, including the relationships between doctors and patients at a time when a growing number of patients began to feel emboldened to challenge medical authority, demanding information about diagnosis and treatment and participation in decision-making.
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.
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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 Notes Index
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 Notes Index
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