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Hospices

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Terminal Care

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Images from the collections

Images about Hospices

3 images from works
  • A St. Bernard dog brings an avalanche victim to a hospice in the Alps. Stipple engraving by Dibart Castel, 1820, after P.A.A. Vafflard.
  • A St. Bernard dog brings an avalanche victim to a hospice in the Alps. Stipple engraving by Dibart Castel, 1820, after P.A.A. Vafflard.
  • A rescue dog brings back a weary boy on his back to a hospice. Lithograph by A. Hoffay after Wafflard.

Works from the collections

95 works

    • Books

    AIDS : an agenda for action : a statement by the National Union of Public Employees / NUPE.

    | Date: 1987
    • Books

    A way to die : living to the end / Rosemary and Victor Zorza.

    Zorza, Rosemary, 1923- | Date: 1981, ©1980
    • Books

    Hospital of St. John & St. Elizabeth : 150 years of compassion and excellence supporting St. John's Hospice.

    Hospital of St. John (London, England) | Date: [2006?]
    • Books

    Stories of health and illness : May 4-June 4, 1988 : catalog for the exhibition / Eye Gallery, 1151 Mission Street, California 94103.

    Eye Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) | Date: ©1988
    • Books

    ChYps : EllenorLions Hospices : 'hospice care for children & young people' : "they bring the hospice to our home".

    EllenorLions Hospices. | Date: [2010?]
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Related topics

Terminal Care
United Kingdom
London
Palliative Care
Hospice Care
Ireland
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
History, 20th Century
Health Services
Death

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