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Author : Joseph Sebuava
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : African fiction
ISBN : IND:39000004425646
Author : Emily K. Abel
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421409207
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 First, that medicine has always sought authority over death and dying; second, that medicine superseded the role of families and spirituality at the end of life; and finally, that only with the advent of the high-tech hospital did an institutional death become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.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Warner Books (NY)
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0446521159
Author : Martyn Boggon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:18159064
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : CUB:U183015730076
Author : John Ogilvie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : BML:37001103888108
Author : Albert Taylor Bledsoe,Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : UCAL:$B676919
Author : Dudley Pope
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473819108
A detailed account of the bloodiest mutiny in the history of the Royal Navy, from the author of the Lord Ramage novels. Dudley Pope meticulously recounts the butchering of the officers aboard His Majesty’s Frigate Hermione in the West Indies in 1797. The captain of the frigate, Hugh Pigot, was a brutal and sadistic commander who flogged his men mercilessly and drove them beyond the limits of endurance. However, nothing could excuse the slaughter of guilty and innocent officers alike as the mutineers went wild and committed crimes beyond anything Pigot could have dreamed up. Not content with that, they then took the ship into an enemy port and gave her up to the Spanish who, unaware of the true facts for some time, nevertheless greeted them with the contempt they deserved. The Spanish took the ship into their service but, due to an amazing episode of red tape and internal wrangling, never actually got the frigate to sea. Meanwhile, the Royal Navy relentlessly hunted down the mutineers over the next ten years, and of the 33 either caught or who gave themselves up, 24 were either hanged and hung in chains upon gibbets, or transported for life… The events culminate with the daring re-capture of the Hermione under the guns of Spanish forts, with Captain Edward Hamilton leading 100 English sailors in six open boats in one of the most brilliant cutting-out expeditions in naval history. “Hiding high drama behind harsh fact, this true tale of horror and adventure at sea will appeal to naval buffs and historians; romantically-minded landlubbers may object to its factual flavor.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author : Albert Newton Raub
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Education
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102878584
Author : Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590714982
Author : James Freeman Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : HARVARD:32044023298888
Author : William James Rolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:32044028872448
Author : Charles Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Anthologies
ISBN : NYPL:33433082501739
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z252726800
Author : Frederick Bryon Norman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600083768