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Release: 2013-04-25
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 1421409194
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
The Inevitable Hour pdf
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At the turn of the twentieth century, medicine’s imperative to cure disease increasingly took priority over the demand to relieve pain and suffering at the end of life. Filled with heartbreaking stories, The Inevitable Hour demonstrates that professional attention and resources gradually were diverted from dying patients. Emily K. Abel challenges three myths about health care and dying in America. First, that medicine has always sought authority over death and dying; second, that medicine superseded the role of families and spirituality at the end of life; and finally, that only with the advent of the high-tech hospital did an institutional death become dehumanized. Abel shows that hospitals resisted accepting dying patients and often worked hard to move them elsewhere. Poor, terminally ill patients, for example, were shipped from Bellevue Hospital in open boats across the East River to Blackwell’s Island, where they died in hovels, mostly without medical care. Some terminal patie Download The Inevitable Hour for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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