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Podcast: The Hospice Chaplaincy Show with Saul Ebema
Episode: Episode 74: Florence Wald and the care for the terminally ill in the 1940s and 50s
Description: Saul Ebema: Florence Wald received a Bachelor of Arts degree in physiology and sociology from Mount Holyoke College in 1938 and immediately enrolled in the 30-month nursing program at Yale University.However, by the time Florence went to Yale University School of Nursing, there was beginning to be a shift in philosophy of care where the primary focus was on the disease, and not on the patient. This disease orientation was a result of the rapidly growing knowledge in medical science that was overshadowing everything else at the time.You are listening to Personhood. The story...