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The inevitable hour : a history of caring for dying patients in America / Emily K. Abel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abel, Emily K.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terminal care--United States--History.
- Terminal care.
- Hospice care--United States--History.
- Hospice care.
- Terminally ill--United States--History.
- Terminally ill.
- Terminal Care--history.
- History.
- United States.
- Terminally Ill--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- Hospice Care--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Terminal Care--history.
- United States.
- Terminally Ill--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- Hospice Care--history.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- The good death at home
- Medical professionals (sometimes) steps in
- Cultivating detachment, sidetracking care
- Institutionalizing the incurable
- "All our dread and apprehension"
- "Nothing more to do"
- A place to die
- The sacred and the spiritual.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781421409191
- 1421409194
- OCLC:
- 808769549
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