Prelude to hospice : listening to dying patients and their families / Emily K. Abel.

By:

Abel, Emily K [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813593951
0813593956
9780813593937
081359393X

Subject(s):

Hospice care -- History

DDC classification:

362.17/56 23

LOC classification:

RA999.H66

NLM classification:

WB 310

Online resources:

EBSCOhost (requires login)

Contents:

Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Setting the Stage; Chapter 2: Doctor and Nurse; Chapter 3: Caring across Cultures; Chapter 4: Hope, Blame, and Acceptance; Chapter 5: Making Sense of the Findings; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Author; Read More in the Series.

Summary: "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"--Provided by publisher

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Item type	Current library	URL	Status
Computer Files - cmm	TNU, Faculty of Nursing and Health Science Internet	Link to resource	Available

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 7, 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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"--Provided by publisher