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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Annual report of the Department of Public Charities of the City of New York ... v.12, 1871
Author: Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction of the City of New York
Author: New York (N.Y.). Department of Public Charities and CorrectionPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
State Charities Aid Association Annual Report
Author: State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.)Publisher:
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Reports for 1909/10-1920/21 include the association's 18th-29th Annual report to the State Hospital Commission ( varies slightly)
Publications
Author: State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.)Publisher:
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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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 First, that medicine has always sought authority over death and dying; second, that medicine superseded the role of families and spirituality at the end of life; and finally, that only with the advent of the high-tech hospital did an institutional death become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.
Report
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Publication
Author: Catalogue ...
Author: State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.)Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Annual Report of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, for the Year ...
Author: New York Chamber of CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Catalogue of Library of the the State Charities Aid Asssociation January, 1880
Author: State Charities Aid Association (N. Y.). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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