Download or read book The Inevitable Hour written by Emily K. Abel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 First, that medicine has always sought authority over death and dying; second, that medicine superseded the role of families and spirituality at the end of life; and finally, that only with the advent of the high-tech hospital did an institutional death become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.
Download or read book Forum and Column Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in English and American Literature from Chaucer to the Present Time written by Albert Newton Raub and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journeys Through Bookland written by Charles Herbert Sylvester and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cantos I and II written by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gray s Poems written by Thomas Gray and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of Celebrated Etonians written by John Heneage Jesse and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Inevitable written by Katie Engelhart and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A remarkably nuanced, empathetic, and well-crafted work of journalism, [The Inevitable] explores what might be called the right-to-die underground, a world of people who wonder why a medical system that can do so much to try to extend their lives can do so little to help them end those lives in a peaceful and painless way.”—Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker More states and countries are passing right-to-die laws that allow the sick and suffering to end their lives at pre-planned moments, with the help of physicians. But even where these laws exist, they leave many people behind. The Inevitable moves beyond margins of the law to the people who are meticulously planning their final hours—far from medical offices, legislative chambers, hospital ethics committees, and polite conversation. It also shines a light on the people who help them: loved ones and, sometimes, clandestine groups on the Internet that together form the “euthanasia underground.” Katie Engelhart, a veteran journalist, focuses on six people representing different aspects of the right to die debate. Two are doctors: a California physician who runs a boutique assisted death clinic and has written more lethal prescriptions than anyone else in the U.S.; an Australian named Philip Nitschke who lost his medical license for teaching people how to end their lives painlessly and peacefully at “DIY Death” workshops. The other four chapters belong to people who said they wanted to die because they were suffering unbearably—of old age, chronic illness, dementia, and mental anguish—and saw suicide as their only option. Spanning North America, Europe, and Australia, The Inevitable offers a deeply reported and fearless look at a morally tangled subject. It introduces readers to ordinary people who are fighting to find dignity and authenticity in the final hours of their lives.
Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes and Queries a Medium of Inter communication for Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Practical Treatise on the Law of Wills and the Administration of Estates in Georgia written by Daniel Huntley Redfearn and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nineteenth Century and After written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twentieth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nineteenth century and after (London)
Download or read book The Wonderful Sacraments what They are and what They Do written by Francis X. Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minutes and Reports written by Congregational-Christian Conference of Maine and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Smart Set written by George Jean Nathan and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buddhism in England written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
