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A History of Palliative Care, 1500-1970 : Concepts, Practices, and Ethical Challenges.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Philosophy and Medicine SeriesPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (219 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783319541785
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A History of Palliative Care, 1500-1970DDC classification:
  • 616.0290903
LOC classification:
  • R131-684
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 Life -- 4.1 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 Euthanasia -- 9.2 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 Montreal -- 11.3 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.
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Intro -- 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 Life -- 4.1 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 Euthanasia -- 9.2 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 Montreal -- 11.3 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.

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