Dancing with broken bones portraits of death and dying among inner-city poor

Dancing with Broken Bones provides a chilling portrait of what it is like to die while living in urban poverty. Via interviews with patients and their families as well as powerful photographs, the author demonstrates that a complex array of factors shape the experience of dying poor in the inner cit...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Moller, David Wendell
مؤلفون آخرون: David Wendell Moller
اللغة:Undetermined
English
منشور في: New York Oxford University Press 2004
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Thư viện lưu trữ: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh
الوصف
الملخص:Dancing with Broken Bones provides a chilling portrait of what it is like to die while living in urban poverty. Via interviews with patients and their families as well as powerful photographs, the author demonstrates that a complex array of factors shape the experience of dying poor in the inner city: mistrust of physicians; inadequate communication among providers, patients, and families; a sense of alienation within the bureaucratic maze of the public hospital system; and indignities in care. By demystifying the stereotypes surrounding poverty, the book illuminates how faith and an unassailable spirit provide strength and courage throughout the end of life experience poor
وصف مادي:xviii, 184 p.
ill.
25 cm
ردمك:0195165349
9780195165340