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Author: Emily K. Abel
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.286kg
ISBN: 9780813593913
ISBN 10: 0813593913
Pages: 156
Publication Date: 30 May 2018
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
If you're looking for a case study on a dysfunctional research and clinical team, hamstrung by hierarchy and hobbled by boundary violations, this book will leave your mouth ajar. --The Gerontologist For those doing research on death and dying, this book is a must read; it provides a quick and easy-to-understand testimony from people experiencing hospice. Readers may gain inspiration on how to make death a more comfortable process for their patients, their families, or themselves. --Choice Partly inspired by Cicely Saunders, [Florence Wald] knew there was a better way to care for the terminally ill and their families. But it was anything but an easy road. This book describes the personal, professional, institutional and societal hurdles she came up against. --IAHPC Newsletter/HospiceCare.com Emily Abel is one of the most respected, influential historians working on family care giving and now, more recently, death and dying. --Patricia D'Antonio director, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8 by Nina C. Ayoub--Chronicle of Higher Education Emily Abel is a distinguished scholar of medicine, nursing, and caregiving. Her latest book, Prelude to Hospice, offers powerful testimony from patients at the moment when many realized that medical progress had limits, and that technology sometimes needs to give way to care. Her portrayal of Florence Wald shows her deep understanding of the changing role of nurses in the second half of the twentieth century. Anyone who wants to understand the origins of hospice in the United States, the challenges of caregiving, and the ways that today's dilemmas at the end of life were present at the origins of the palliative care movement should read her compelling new book. --Carla C. Keirns, MD, PhD historian and palliative care physician Abel's book is a timely portrayal of one of the founders of the modern hospice movement. In learning about Ms. Wald, it is our responsibility as the reader to take the good, learn from the bad, and continue to build upon and evolve Ms. Wald's legacy to embrace suffering, loss, and hurt with compassion and empathy. --Omega
New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8 by Nina C. Ayoub
Emily Abel is one of the most respected, influential historians working on family care giving and now, more recently, death and dying. --Patricia D'Antonio director, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing
Emily Abel is one of the most respected, influential historians working on family care giving and now, more recently, death and dying. --Patricia D'Antonio director, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8 by Nina C. Ayoub--Chronicle of Higher Education Emily Abel is a distinguished scholar of medicine, nursing, and caregiving. Her latest book, Prelude to Hospice, offers powerful testimony from patients at the moment when many realized that medical progress had limits, and that technology sometimes needs to give way to care. Her portrayal of Florence Wald shows her deep understanding of the changing role of nurses in the second half of the twentieth century. Anyone who wants to understand the origins of hospice in the United States, the challenges of caregiving, and the ways that today's dilemmas at the end of life were present at the origins of the palliative care movement should read her compelling new book. --Carla C. Keirns, MD, PhD historian and palliative care physician
Author Information
EMILY K. ABEL is professor emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles’s Fielding School of Public Health. She is the author of several books, including Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles (Rutgers University Press), which won the Viseltear Prize of the Medical Section of the American Public Health Association for an Outstanding Book in the History of Public Health.
