Author: heather
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The Theater of Operations
I don’t think I really understood the extent to which American fear of annihilation was woven into everyday life during the Cold War, finally coming into its own as a quintessentially American cultural trait once the US dropped the bombs on Japan. It’s a strange collective paranoia to be the only party in history with…
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Hospicing Modernity
The book’s title alone is confrontational: Hospicing Modernity. Hospice care is not rehabilitative – it’s palliative. A patient entering hospice care is not seeking to be cured, but to be comforted and cared for at the end of their life. Hospicing is about accepting the inevitability of death with compassion and dignity, recognizing our shared…