A history of palliative care, 1500-1970 : concepts, practices, and ethical challenges /: concepts, practices, and ethical challenges. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael Stolberg.
• Authors: Stolberg, Michael, 1957-
• Other Names: Kennedy, Logan translator.; Unglaub, Leonhard translator.
• 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. 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. 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. 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages)
• Subjects: 616.02/9; Medicine; Palliative treatment -- History; Palliative treatment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History; Palliative Care -- history; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General; MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL -- Diseases; MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine; Palliative treatment; Palliative treatment -- Moral and ethical aspects; Philosophy -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Ethics & moral philosophy; Ethics; Medical -- History; History of medicine; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319541785; 3319541781
• Related ISBNs: 9783319541778; 3319541773
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 3, 2017).
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