The inevitable hour [electronic resource] : a history of caring for dying patients in America / Emily K. Abel.
Material type: TextPublication details: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (p. )ISBN:- 9781421409207
- 1421409208
- 616.02/9 23
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The good death at home -- The medical profession (sometimes) steps in -- Cultivating detachment, sidetracking care -- Institutionalizing the incurable -- "All our dread and apprehension" -- "Nothing more to do" -- A place to die -- The sacred and the spiritual.
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