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245 10 a| Prelude to hospiceh| [electronic resource] :b| Florence Wald, dying people and their families /c| Emily K. Abel.;

260 a| New Brunswick, New Jersey :b| Rutgers University Press,c| [2018];

300 a| v, 143 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 21 cm;

490 1 a| Critical issues in health and medicine;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-136) and index.;

505 8 a| Machine generated contents note: Setting the Stage -- Doctor and Nurse -- Caring across Cultures -- Hope, Blame, and Acceptance -- Making Sense of the Findings -- Conclusion.;

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520 a| "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"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Prelude to hospice Florence Wald, dying people and their families / Emily K. Abel.

Author/creator	Abel, Emily K.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Description	v, 143 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Wald, Florence. Hospice Care--history. History, 20th Century Hospices--history. United States

Series	Critical issues in health and medicine Critical issues in health and medicine. ^A886083
Contents	Machine generated contents note: Setting the Stage -- Doctor and Nurse -- Caring across Cultures -- Hope, Blame, and Acceptance -- Making Sense of the Findings -- Conclusion.
Abstract	"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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-136) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2017053034
ISBN	9780813593913 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN	0813593913 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780813593920 (paperback : alk. paper)
ISBN	0813593921 (paperback : alk. paper)

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