Prelude to Hospice : : Florence Wald, Dying People, and their Families / / Emily K. Abel.
Hospices have played a critical role in transforming ideas about death and dying. 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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (156 p.) :; 2 b-w photos |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contents
- 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
- Acknowledgments
- Index