Netting the hospice butterfly: politics, policy, and translation of an ideal.
This article presents a historical analysis of the American hospice movement. It examines the social and political factors that created an environment for the movement to emerge. In doing so, it explores the processes by which multidisciplinary teams came together to advance hospice as a necessary healthcare reform and the challenges they faced in doing so.
West Virginia University School of Nursing and Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, Eastern Division, Morgantown, West Virginia 25427, USA. joybuck@comcast.net
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