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Prelude to hospice : Florence Wald, dying people and their families

Title
Prelude to hospice : Florence Wald, dying people and their families / Emily K. Abel.
Author
Abel, Emily K.
Publication
  • New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Description
v, 143 pages : illustration; 21 cm
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.
Series Statement
Critical issues in health and medicine
Uniform Title
Critical issues in health and medicine
Alternative Title
Florence Wald, dying people and their families
Subject
  • Wald, Florence
  • Wald, Florence 1917-2008
  • Hospice care > History
  • Hospices (Terminal care) > History
  • Hospice Care > history
  • History, 20th Century
  • Hospices > history
  • MEDICAL / Terminal Care
  • Hospice care
  • Hospices (Terminal care)
  • Sterbeklinik
  • United States
  • USA
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-136) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Setting the stage -- Doctor and nurse -- Caring across cultures -- Hope, blame, and acceptance -- Making sense of the findings -- Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9780813593913
  • 0813593913
  • 9780813593920
  • 0813593921
  • 9780813593937 (canceled/invalid)
  • 081359393X (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780813593951 (canceled/invalid)
  • 0813593956 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2017053034
OCLC
  • on1007552535
  • 1007552535
  • SCSB-9025725
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library