A history of palliative care, 1500-1970 concepts, practices, and ethical challenges /

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 an...

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Main Author: Stolberg, Michael, 1957-
Other Authors: Kennedy, Logan,, Unglaub, Leonhard,, SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
German
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages).
Series: Philosophy and medicine ; v. 123.
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