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Dying at the margins : reflections on justice and healing for inner-city poor /

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An illuminating and timely follow up to Dancing with Broken Bones, all discussions revolve around the actual experiences of the patients previously documented, encouraging a greater understanding about the needs of the dying poor, advocating for them and developing best practices in caring.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Moller, David Wendell (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Urban poor > United States > Death > Case studies.
Terminal care > United States > Case studies.
Death > Social aspects > United States.
Terminal Care.
Terminally Ill.
Death.
Urban Population.
Poverty Areas.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Strangers among us : poverty, race, and the end of life / David Wendell Moller
  • Across the tracks : Milton
  • reflections on a grim beginning / David Wendell Moller
  • Notes from the trenches : a conversation with Cowboy and his team / Terry Altilio
  • Exploring the experiences of Mr. J.W. Green : injustice, poverty, mistreatment and evil surrounding serious illness and death in poor African-American people / Richard Payne
  • Voices of the patients : the Whites
  • expressing unimaginable indignities / Christian T. Sinclair
  • The story of Annie
  • gratitude and faith / Betty R. Ferrell
  • Life on the brink : Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler / Robert Arnold
  • The life and death of Lucille Angel from primary care, chaplaincy, and palliative care perspectives / Rachel Diamond, Rev. Robin Franklin, and Timothy Quill
  • Dying poor needn't mean dying poorly : insights from a safety-net hospital palliative care program / Gregory P. Gramelspacher and Richard Gunderman
  • Notes from the trenches : on social injustice : race, class, and health disparity / F. Amos Bailey
  • Notes from the trenches : living, dying, and caring at the margins / Tammie E. Quest and Kimberly Curseen
  • Reflections on an urban Thoreau : a peaceful ending to the life of Cowboy / David Wendell Moller
  • Reflections on end-of-life care of the urban poor : Cowboy's legacy / Shirley Otis-Green
  • Epilogue: a call to action : caring at the margins / Diane Meier and Stacie Sinclair
  • A final muse : on solidarity with those at the margins / David Wendell Moller.