Dancing with Broken Bones

Author: David Wendell Moller
Edition: Exp Rev
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0199760136
Category: Medical

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

Dancing with Broken Bones gives voice and face to a vulnerable and disempowered population whose stories often remain untold: the urban dying poor. Download Dancing with Broken Bones medical books for free.
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 that surround poverty, Moller illuminates how faith, remarkable optimism, and an unassailable Get Dancing with Broken Bones our bestseller medical books.

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