Bøker av Emily K. Abel

Although caregiving is predominantly women's work, care for the elderly is largely absent from the feminist agenda in this country. This book presents a compelling and sensitive report that describes the experience of caregiving from the perspective of adult daughters.

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.

Provides a critical lens through which to view both the contemporary debate about immigration and the US response to the emergent global tuberculosis epidemic. This book shows how the association of the disease with ""tramps"" during the 1880s and 1890s and Dust Bowl refugees during the 1930s provoked exclusionary measures against both groups.

Chronic pain. Insomnia. Depression. These are just a few of the ongoing, debilitating symptoms that plague some breast-cancer survivors long after their treatments have officially ended. This book is filled with portraits of more than seventy women who are living with the aftermath of breast cancer.

Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people to live as fully and painlessly as possible. Award-winning medical historian Emily Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care. Using a unique set of records, this book expands our understanding of the history of US hospices.

Abel offers a groundbreaking study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety years.