Prelude to Hospice : Florence Wald, Dying People, and their Families / Emily K. Abel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abel, Emily K., Author.

Series:

Critical issues in health and medicine.

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Florence Wald.

health policy.

home care.

hospice care.

hospice.

public health.

United States.

Wald, Florence.

Medical Subjects:

United States.

Wald, Florence.

Local Subjects:

Florence Wald.

health policy.

home care.

hospice care.

hospice.

public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 issues surrounding the growth of hospice care. Using a unique set of records, Prelude to Hospice expands our understanding of the history of U.S. hospices. Compiled largely by Florence Wald, the founder of the first U.S. hospice, the records provide a detailed account of her experiences studying and caring for dying people and their families in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although Wald never published a report of her findings, she often presented her material informally. Like many others seeking to found new institutions, she believed she could garner support only by demonstrating that her facility would be superior in every respect to what currently existed. As a result, she generated inflated expectations about what a hospice could accomplish. Wald's records enable us to glimpse the complexities of the work of tending to dying people.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780813593913

0813593913

9780813593937

081359393X

9780813593951

0813593956

OCLC:

1038709850