Emily Abel, UCLA-Fielding School of Public Health
Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, Seminar Series (Philadelphia, PA)
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Location:Room 435, Floor 4, Claire Fagin Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Abstract: The records of an unpublished study between 1969 and 1971 provide remarkable insight into the lives of dying patients and their families. The principal investigator was former dean of the Yale School of Nursing, who viewed the study as the initial step in establishing the first U. S. hospice. Wald and her colleagues veered sharply from their findings to make a case for a new type of medical facility.
Bio: Emily Abel is a research professor at the UCLA-Fielding School of Public Health. Her books in medical history include Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin (2000), Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative (2006); Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles (2007) and The Inevitable Hour: A History of Caring for Dying People in America (2013). She currently is completing a manuscript about patients and family members confronting fatal chronic disease since 1965.
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