The inevitable hour : a history of caring for dying patients in America

Summary: 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. -- Book Jacket

Record details

ISBN: 9781421409191 (hardover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1421409194 (hardover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781421409207 (electronic)
ISBN: 1421409208 (electronic)
Physical Description: print
226 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-217) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The good death at home -- Medical professionals (sometimes) step 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.