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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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Language: | English |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2015]
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x, 269 pages ; 26 cm. |
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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.