The Inevitable Hour

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Changes in health care have dramatically altered the experience of dying in America. 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 First, that medicine has always sought authority over death and dying; second, that medicine superseded the role of families and spirituality at the end of life; and finally, that only with the advent of the high-tech hospital did an institutional death become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 patients were not forced to leave, yet long before the advent of feeding tubes and respirators, dying in a hospital was a profoundly dehumanizing experience. With technological advances, passage of the Social Security Act, and enactment of Medicare and Medicaid, almshouses slowly disappeared and conditions for dying patients improved—though, as Abel argues, the prejudices and approaches of the past are still with us. The problems that plagued nineteenth-century almshouses can be found in many nursing homes today, where residents often receive substandard treatment. 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.

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Genre : Medical
Author : Emily K. Abel
Publisher : JHU Press
Release : 2013-05-01
File : 238 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781421409207


The Inevitable Marriage

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Author : Dorothea Gerard
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Release : 1911
File : 316 Pages
ISBN-13 : CORNELL:31924013641661


Half Hours With The Best Foreign Authors

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Genre : Anthologies
Author : Charles Morris
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Release : 1888
File : 536 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433082501739


Minutes And Reports

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Genre : Congregational churches
Author : Congregational-Christian Conference of Maine
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Release : 1873
File : 550 Pages
ISBN-13 : UIUC:30112124933729


Diary Of The Besieged Resident In Paris

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Genre : Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
Author : Henry Du Pré Labouchere
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Release : 1871
File : 428 Pages
ISBN-13 : OXFORD:600051939


The Preacher S Complete Homiletical Commentary

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Genre : Bible
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Release : 1892
File : 386 Pages
ISBN-13 : COLUMBIA:CR00252549


A History Of The Van Sickle Family In The United States Of America

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Ferdinandus Van Sycklin (ca. 1635-ca. 1712) emigrated from Holland, Netherlands to Kings County, Long Island, New York in 1652. He married Eva Antonis Jansen about 1660, and settled as pioneers on Long Island. Descendants (chiefly spelling surname Van Sicklen or or Van Sickle) and relatives lived in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and elsewhere.

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Author : John Waddell Van Sickle
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Release : 1880
File : 248 Pages
ISBN-13 : WISC:89062512538


Lectures On The Principles And Practice Of Physic Delivered At King S College London

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Genre : Clinical medicine
Author : Thomas Watson
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Release : 1871
File : 1114 Pages
ISBN-13 : GENT:900000194514


The Nineteenth Century

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Genre : Nineteenth century
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Release : 1881
File : 1092 Pages
ISBN-13 : PRNC:32101045358502


The Church And Its Ordinances

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Author : Walter Farquhar Hook
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Release : 1876
File : 400 Pages
ISBN-13 : PRNC:32101065100354