Author: Hartford Hospital
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Annual Report of the Executive Committee
Author: Hartford Hospital
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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The Budget Report of the State Board of Finance and Control to the General Assembly, Session of [1929-] 1937
Author: Connecticut. Board of Finance and Control
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
Book Description
Budget report for 1929/31 deals also with the operations of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1928 and the estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929.
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Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
Book Description
Budget report for 1929/31 deals also with the operations of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1928 and the estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929.
Public Documents of the State of Connecticut
Author: Connecticut
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
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Annual Report of the Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene
Author: Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Report
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The Inevitable Hour
Author: Emily K. Abel
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421409208
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
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.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421409208
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
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.
Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts
Publisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
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Journal of the Senate of the State of Connecticut
Author: Connecticut. General Assembly. Senate
Publisher:
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Public Documents of the Legislature
Author: Connecticut. General Assembly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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