Dancing with Broken Bones Poverty, Race, and Spirit-Filled Dying in the Inner City

Name: Dancing with Broken Bones Poverty, Race, and Spirit-Filled Dying in the Inner City
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ISBN: 9780199760138

ISBN-10: 0199760136

ISBN-13: 9780199760138

Edition: 2011

Authors: David Wendell Moller

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Dancing with Broken Bones 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 hiddenwithin a culture of broad invisibility. He demonstrates how a complex array of factors, such as mistrust of physicians, regrettable indignities in care, and inadequate communication among providers, patients, and families, shape the experience of the dying poor in the inner city. This book challenges readers to look at reality in a different way. Demystifying stereotypes that surround poverty, Moller…

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List price: $72.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/13/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.14" long x 0.48" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Introduction: Revisiting Dancing with Broken Bones



Crossing the Tracks



Dying Poor: An Invisible World



Dying 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


Epilogue


An Urban Thoreau