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Dancing with Broken Bones

David Wendell Moller

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Description for Dancing with Broken Bones Paperback. 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 hidden within a culture of broad invisibility. Num Pages: 228 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFA; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 332.
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 hidden within 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 ... Read more

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Format

Paperback

Publication date

2012

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc United States

Number of pages

228

Condition

New

Number of Pages

228

Place of Publication

New York, United States

ISBN

9780199760138

SKU

V9780199760138

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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days

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99-10

About David Wendell Moller

David Wendell Moller is Chair of the Department of Bioethics at Kansas City University if Medicine and Biosciences. Previously, he served as Director of Human Values in Medicine at Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, and he has held academic positions at the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Medicine, Indiana University, and Fort Hays State University. Moller ... Read more

Reviews for Dancing with Broken Bones

Read this book. It will remind you why you became a physician.
The Lancet
Moller has produced a profound literary work.
Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care
...stories of courage, faith, suffering, and neglect are interwoven in a remarkable book for anyone with an interest in end-of-life care.
Journal of Palliative Medicine ... Read more
Moller takes us through doors that we otherwise would not cross. He introduces us to people who are authentically themselves, fully alive, despite dismal circumstances. We hear their anger as well as their humor, see their suffering as well as their joy. They teach us the importance of feeling connected to others and the critical value of forgiveness, gratitude, and love at the end of life. Suffering misfortune that few of us can imagine, the people whose stories Moller tells reveal the inherent dignity and the indomitable nature of the human spirit.
- Ira Byock, MD, author of Dying Well, and co-founder of Life's End Institute: Missoula Demonstration Project
For most of us, the lives and deaths of the urban homeless remain invisible and largely unfathomable. Dr. Moller and his colleagues have had the courage to enter this world, and to even take medical students with them! In Dancing with Broken Bones, we too are invited along to witness its tragedies and its humanity. In these remarkable real-life narratives, we can contemplate what a dignified death might look like in the face of extreme poverty and homelessness. In doing so, we are invited to consider what is important in our own privileged lives and deaths, and how we should be caring for those who are far less fortunate.
Timothy E. Quill, MD, University of Rochester School of Medicine
Dr. Moller has shed light on the forgotten world of illness and dying in the urban poor. Through eloquence, grace, and wit, he makes us face what to many is too painful to contemplate - death that is painful, lonely, and unwanted. This book will serve as a landmark in the death and dying literature, forcing health professionals and society at large to work harder toward an equitable system of healthcare for the living and the dying.
David E. Weissman, MD, Palliative Care Center, Medical College of Wisconsin
This book moved me to tears, to anger, to repeated shocks of recognition, as well as to joy and to pride at being part of a human race whose members are capable of such remarkable love and care for one another.
Diane E. Meier, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
The grace and dignity of humanity is pervasive and memorable in these stories of living with poverty and fatal illness; but I hope that we are also profoundly moved to relieve the tragic circumstances that poverty and inept healthcare arrangements inflicted upon the people whose stories David Moller tells.
Joanne Lynn, MD, The Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies
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