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Meet Emily K. Abel

Emily K. Abel

Emily K. Abel is professor emerita at the UCLA–Fielding School of Public Health. She is the author of many books, including After the Cure: The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors and Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850–1940.

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The Inevitable Hour
A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America

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Living in Death’s Shadow
Family Experiences of Terminal Care and Irreplaceable Loss

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