The inevitable hour : a history of caring for dying patients in America / / Emily K. Abel
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| Autore: |
Abel Emily K
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| Titolo: |
The inevitable hour : a history of caring for dying patients in America / / Emily K. Abel
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, Md., : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 616.02/9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Terminal care - United States - History |
| Hospice care - United States - History | |
| Terminally ill - United States - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The inevitable hour |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-0920-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811571603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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