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The Crisis of US Hospice Care Family and Freedom at the End of Life / Harold Braswell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Braswell, Harold, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Right to die.
- Hospice care.
- Hospice care--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Palliative treatment.
- History, 20th Century.
- Hospice care--history.
- Hospice care--ethics.
- Hospice care--History.
- Palliative treatment--United States.
- Hospice care--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Hospice care--United States.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- Providing a model for the transformative work that is required going forward, The Crisis of US Hospice Care illustrates the potential of hospice for facilitating a new way of living our last days and for having the best death possible.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Beyond the Right to Die; 2 Depending on the Family; 3 Birth of a Crisis; 4 What Happens to Dying People When Love Is Not Enough; 5 Caring across the American Political Divide; 6 When the End of Life Begins; Conclusion; Afterword: How My Mother Died; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-258) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-2983-7
- OCLC:
- 1106172247
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