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Author : Joseph Sebuava
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Inevitable Hour written by Joseph Sebuava and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emily K. Abel
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421409208
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
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 First, that medicine has always sought authority over death and dying; second, that medicine superseded the role of families and spirituality at the end of life; and finally, that only with the advent of the high-tech hospital did an institutional death become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.
Author : Emily K. Abel
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421409194
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Inevitable Hour written by Emily K. Abel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Publisher : Warner Books (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780446521154
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Inevitable Hour written by and published by Warner Books (NY). This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Kelly
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525428089
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)
Download or read book The Inevitable written by Kevin Kelly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming -- Cognifying -- Flowing -- Screening -- Accessing -- Sharing -- Filtering -- Remixing -- Interacting -- Tracking -- Questioning -- Beginning
Author : Katie Engelhart
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250201470
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
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.
Author : Shalanda Stanley
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 055350830X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Drowning Is Inevitable written by Shalanda Stanley and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A literary knockout with the loudest of beating hearts." John Corey Whaley, Printz Award winner of Where Things Come Back Olivia has spent her whole life struggling to escape her dead mother’s shadow. But when her father can’t even look at her because Olivia reminds him of her mother, and her grandmother mistakenly calls her “Lillian,” shaking a reputation she didn’t ask for is next to impossible. Olivia is used to leaning on her best friend, Jamie; her handsome but hot-tempered boyfriend, Max; and their wild-child friend, Maggie, for the reality check that her small Louisiana town can’t provide. But when a terrible fight between Jamie and his father turns deadly, all Olivia can think to do is grab her friends and run. In a flash, Olivia, Jamie, Max, and Maggie become fugitives on the back roads of Louisiana. They’re headed to New Orleans, where they hope to find a solution to an unfixable problem. But with their faces displayed on all the news stations, their journey becomes a harrowing game of hide-and-seek from the police—and so-called allies, who just might be the real enemy. Shalanda Stanley’s breathtaking debut novel explores the deep ties between legacy, loyalty, and love, even as it asks the question: How far would you go to save a friend?
Author : Bailey Millard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Songs of the Press and Other Adventures in Verse written by Bailey Millard and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Gray
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020311949
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Elegy in a Country Churchyard and Other Selections written by Thomas Gray and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of poems by Thomas Gray includes some of his best-known works, including the titular 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard.' With its themes of mortality and the passing of time, Gray's poetry is both beautiful and thought-provoking, and this volume is a must-read for anyone interested in English literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Nina Riggs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501169351
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Bright Hour written by Nina Riggs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Built on her ... Modern Love column, 'When a Couch is More Than a Couch' (9/23/2016), a ... memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' by the 38-year-old great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson--mother to two young boys, wife of 16 years--after her terminal cancer diagnosis"--
Author : Gideon E. Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)
Download or read book The Canadian Teacher ... written by Gideon E. Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Ogilvie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language written by John Ogilvie and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert Taylor Bledsoe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Southern Review written by Albert Taylor Bledsoe and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dudley Pope
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473819105
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Black Ship written by Dudley Pope and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Naibu Kanda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Memorials of Naibu Kanda written by Naibu Kanda and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert Newton Raub
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Educational News written by Albert Newton Raub and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
