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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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A frank portrayal of the medical care of dying people past and present, The Inevitable Hour helps to explain why a movement to restore dignity to the dying arose in the early 1970s and why its goals have been so difficult to achieve.
- Contents:
- The good death at home
- The medical profession (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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0920-8
- OCLC:
- 846541253
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