Dancing with broken bones : poverty, race, and spirit-filled dying in the inner city.

Dancing with broken bones : poverty, race, and spirit-filled dying in the inner city.

This title gives voice and face to a vulnerable and disempowered population whose stories often remain untold: the urban dying poor. Drawing on complex issues surrounding poverty, class, and race, Moller illuminates the unique sufferings that often remain unknown and hidden within a culture of broad...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Moller, David Wendell (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012
Edition:Rev. & expanded ed.
Subjects:
Urban poor > United States > Death > Case studies.
Terminal care > Social aspects > United States > Case studies.
Death > United States.
Psychology and religion.
Health.
Medical care.
Social problems.
Sociology.
Therapeutics.
National health services.
Religion.
Social sciences.
Humanities.
Diseases.
Urban health.
Death.
Spirituality.
Poverty.
Socioeconomic Factors
Religion and Psychology
Pathologic Processes
Health
Patient Care
Social Problems
Psychological Phenomena and Processes
Sociology
Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms
Population Characteristics
Therapeutics
Health Services
Religion
Social Sciences
Psychiatry and Psychology
Delivery of Health Care
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services
Humanities
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Disease
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Urban Health
Poverty Areas
Death
Spirituality
Poverty
Terminal Care
health.
social issues.
sociology.
religion (discipline)
social sciences.
humanities.
deaths.
treating (health care function)
poverty.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Crossing the tracks
  • Dying poor : an invisible world
  • Dying in the public hospital system : institutional arrangements and provider perspectives
  • Courage through suffering : snapshots of the dying poor
  • Triumph and faith through harsh reality and personal tragedy : Lucille Angel
  • Life on the brink : Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler
  • A conclusion : conscious listening, mindful presence : a lesson learned.

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