Author: Charity Hospital (New Orleans, La.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Report of the Board of Administrators of the Charity Hospital to the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana
Author: Charity Hospital (New Orleans, La.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Report of the Board of Administrators of the Charity Hospital to the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana
Author: Charity Hospital (New Orleans, La.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Report of the Board of Administrators of the Charity Hospital to the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana
Author: Charity Hospital (New Orleans, La.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Report of the Attorney General to the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana
Author: Louisiana. Attorney General's OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Biennial Report of the Board of Curators of the Louisiana State Museum ...
Author: Louisiana State MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Biennial Report of the Board of Curators of the Louisiana State Museum to His Excellency, the Governor and the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana
Author: Louisiana State Museum. Board of CuratorsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Inevitable Hour
Author: Emily K. AbelPublisher: 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 First, that medicine has always sought authority over death and dying; second, that medicine superseded the role of families and spirituality at the end of life; and finally, that only with the advent of the high-tech hospital did an institutional death become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.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
Book Description
"Collection of incunabula and early medical prints in the library of the Surgeon-general's office, U.S. Army": Ser. 3, v. 10, p. 1415-1436.
Whiskey, Women, and War
Author: Brian AltobelloPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496835085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Entering World War I in 1917, a burst of patriotism in New Orleans collided with civil liberties. The city, due to its French heritage, shared a strong cultural tie to the Allies, and French speakers from Louisiana provided vital technical assistance to the US military during the war effort. Meanwhile, citizens of German heritage were harassed by unscrupulous, ill-trained volunteers of the American Protective League, ordained by the Justice Department to shield America from enemies within. As a major port, the wartime mobilization dramatically reshaped the cultural landscape of the city in ways that altered the national culture, especially as jazz musicians spread outward from the vice districts. Whiskey, Women, and War: How the Great War Shaped Jim Crow New Orleans surveys the various ways the city confronted the demands of World War I under the supervision of a dynamic political machine boss. Author Brian Altobello analyzes the mobilization of the local population in terms of enlistments and war bond sales and addresses the anti-vice crusade meant to safeguard the American war effort, giving attention to Prohibition and the closure of the red-light district known as Storyville. He studies the political fistfight over women’s suffrage, as New Orleans’s Gordon sisters demanded the vote predicated on the preservation of white supremacy. Finally, he examines race relations in the city, as African Americans were integrated into the city’s war effort and cultural landscape even as Jim Crow was firmly established. Ultimately, the volume brings to life this history of a city that endured World War I in its own singular style.
Report of the Attorney General to the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana
Author: Louisiana. Department of JusticePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Attorneys general's opinions
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
