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  • Listening to Dementia

    Advocating for Dignity and Autonomy

    de Emily K. Abel ...
    How dementia affects those living with the condition, their carers, and their advocacyIn Listening to Dementia, Emily K. Abel demonstrates that recognizing the voices of people with dementia can fundamentally alter our understanding of both their lived experience and the discourse surrounding their care. She focuses on the memoirs of twelve individuals living with the condition who became ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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  • Sick and Tired

    An Intimate History of Fatigue

    de Emily K. Abel ...
    Series series Studies in Social Medicine
    Medicine finally has discovered fatigue. Recent articles about various diseases conclude that fatigue has been underrecognized, underdiagnosed, and undertreated. Scholars in the social sciences and humanities have also ignored the phenomenon. As a result, we know little about what it means to live with this condition, especially given its diverse symptoms and causes. Emily K. Abel offers the first ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • After the Cure

    The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors

    de Emily K. Abel, Saskia K. Subramanian ...
    2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title2009 Association of American University Presses Award for Jacket DesignThe stories of 70 women living in the aftermath of breast cancerChemo brain. Fatigue. 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. While there are ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Gluten Free for Life

    Celiac Disease, Medical Recognition, and the Food Industry

    de Emily K. Abel ...
    A groundbreaking exploration of celiac disease, a serious autoimmune condition that affects approximately three million Americans, or 1 percent of the populationThe manifestations of celiac disease–including anemia, gastrointestinal problems, and infertility–are diverse and can have severe consequences if left untreated. The only therapy is lifelong adherence to a gluten-free diet. Because many ... Leer más

    Antes $26.99 USD Ahora $19.99 USD

  • The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps

    Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century

    de Emily K. Abel, Professor Margaret K. Nelson ...
    Although summer camps profoundly impact children, they have received little attention from scholars. The well-known Farm & Wilderness (F&W) camps, founded in 1939 by Ken and Susan Webb, resembled most other private camps of the same period in many ways, but F&W also had some distinctive features. Campers and staff took pride in the special ruggedness of the surrounding environment, and delighted ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Limited Choices

    Mable Jones, a Black Children's Nurse in a Northern White Household

    de Emily K. Abel, Margaret K. Nelson ...
    When interviewed by the Charlottesville, Virginia, Ridge Street Oral History Project, which documented the lives of Black residents in the 1990s, Mable Jones described herself as a children’s nurse, recounting her employment in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Emily Abel and Margaret Nelson, whose mother employed Jones, use the interview and their own childhood memories as a starting point in ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • Hearts of Wisdom

    American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940

    de Emily K. Abel ...
    The image of the female caregiver holding a midnight vigil at the bedside of a sick relative is so firmly rooted in our collective imagination we might assume that such caregiving would have attracted the scrutiny of numerous historians. As Emily Abel demonstrates in this groundbreaking study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety years, this has ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Prelude to Hospice

    Florence Wald, Dying People, and their Families

    de Emily K. Abel ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
    Hospices have played a critical role in transforming ideas about death and dying. Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people approaching mortality to live as fully and painlessly as possible. Award-winning medical historian Emily K. Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care. Using a unique set of records, Prelude to Hospice ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Living in Death’s Shadow

    Family Experiences of Terminal Care and Irreplaceable Loss

    de Emily K. Abel ...
    Challenging assumptions about caregiving for those dying of chronic illness.What is it like to live with—and love—someone whose death, while delayed, is nevertheless foretold? In Living in Death’s Shadow, Emily K. Abel, an expert on the history of death and dying, examines memoirs written between 1965 and 2014 by family members of people who died from chronic disease. In earlier eras, death ... Leer más

    $35.29 USD

  • The Inevitable Hour

    A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America

    de Emily K. Abel ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Elder Care in Crisis

    How the Social Safety Net Fails Families

    de Emily K. Abel ...
    Series Libro 2 - Health, Society, and Inequality
    Explains why there is a crisis in caring for elderly people and how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated itBecause government policies are based on an ethic of family responsibility, repeated calls to support family members caring for the burgeoning elderly population have gone unanswered. Without publicly funded long-term care services, many family caregivers cannot find relief from obligations that ... Leer más

    $21.89 USD

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  • Huck’s Raft

    A History of American Childhood

    de Steven Mintz ...
    Like Huck’s raft, the experience of American childhood has been both adventurous and terrifying. For more than three centuries, adults have agonized over raising children while children have followed their own paths to development and expression. Now, Steven Mintz gives us the first comprehensive history of American childhood encompassing both the child’s and the adult’s tumultuous early years of ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD