| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 219 pages) |
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Philosophy and medicine ; volume 123 |
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Philosophy and medicine ; v. 123.
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| Contents |
Dedication; Contents; 1: Introduction; Part I: The Early Modern Period (1500-1800); 2: Caring for€Terminally Ill Patients; 2.1 Cura palliativa. Archeology of€a€Modern Term; 2.2 Cura mortis palliativa and€Euthanasia medicinalis; 2.3 Palliative Care in€Early Modern Medical Practice; 2.4 Medical Care for€the€Dying-A Professional Dilemma; 2.5 The Art of€Prognosis; 3: Ethical Challenges; 3.1 The Intentional Shortening of€Life; 3.2 The Unintentional Shortening of€Life; 3.3 Forgoing Treatment; 3.4 Medical Morality and€Lay Culture; 3.5 Truth at the€Sickbed |
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4: The Experience of€Death and€Terminal Care in€Everyday Life4.1 Hopes for€the€Afterlife and€the€"Final Hour"; 4.2 Subjective Experience; 4.3 The Horror of€Death; 4.4 Dying at Home; 4.5 The Normative Constraints of€the€Art of€Dying; 4.6 Dying with€a€Clear Mind; 4.7 Sudden Death; 4.8 Doctors and€Clergy at the€Deathbed; Part II: Modern Times (1800-1970); 5: The Rise and€Fall of€Euthanasia Medica; 6: The Practice of€Palliative Treatment; 6.1 Palliative Surgery; 6.2 Nursing; 7: The Doctor as€an€Emotional and€Spiritual Caregiver; 8: The Perspective of€Patients; 9: Ethical Controversies |
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9.1 Active Euthanasia9.2 Unintentional Shortening of€Life and€the€Limiting of€Therapy; 9.3 Conflict Between Doctors and€Laypeople; 9.4 A Right to€Know? Dealing with€Fatal Prognosis; 10: Institutional Care; 10.1 No Room for€Hopeless Cases; 10.2 Hospitals for€the€Incurable Sick; 10.3 Institutions for€Cancer Patients; 10.4 Institutions for€the€Consumptive; 10.5 The First Hospices for€the€Dying; 10.6 Dying in€an€Institution; 11: The Time After 1945; 11.1 Cicely Saunders and€the€Beginning of€the€Modern Hospice Movement |
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11.2 The First Palliative Care Units: The€Royal Victoria Hospital in€Montreal11.3 Outpatient Care; Part III: Conclusion; 12: Continuity and€Change; 12.1 The Long History of€Palliative Care; 12.2 Medicalization; 12.3 Taboo; 12.4 Stigma; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book on the history of palliative care, 1500-1970 traces the historical roots of modern palliative care in Europe to the rise of the hospice movement in the 1960s. The author discusses largely forgotten premodern concepts like cura palliativa and euthanasia medica and describes, how patients and physicians experienced and dealt with terminal illness. He traces the origins of hospitals for incurable and dying patients and follows the long history of ethical debates on issues like truth-telling and the intentional shortening of the dying patients' lives and the controversies they sparked between physicians and patients. An eye opener for anyone interested in the history of ethical decision making regarding terminal care of critically ill patients |
| Notes |
"Translated by Logan Kennedy and Leonhard Unglaub." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 3, 2017) |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
Palliative treatment -- History
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Palliative treatment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History
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Palliative Care -- history
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Ethics & moral philosophy.
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History of medicine.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Palliative treatment
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Palliative treatment -- Moral and ethical aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kennedy, Logan, translator
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Unglaub, Leonhard, translator
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| ISBN |
9783319541785 |
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3319541781 |
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