Palliative care the 400-year quest for a good death /

"Providing a detailed picture of contemporary palliative care, this book chronicles four centuries of professional and personal advances in the quest for a good death, covering the fight against futile treatments, the history of life-extending treatments and technologies, the liberation of the...

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Main Author: Vanderpool, Harold Y.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
Physical Description:
x, 269 pages ; 26 cm.
Subjects:
Palliative treatment.
Terminal care.
Right to die.
Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • From proclamation to recognition: 1605-1772
  • Minute details and codified conduct:1789-1825
  • That science called euthanasia:1826-1854
  • Polarities between attention and disregard: 1859-1894
  • Challenging the overreach of modern medicine: 1895-1935
  • Never say die versus care for the dying: 1935-1959
  • Times of momentous transition: 1960-1981
  • Progress, threatening seas, and endurance: 1982-1999
  • Choices: 2000 to the present
  • Epilogue
  • Chapter Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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