A History of Palliative Care, 1500-1970

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139,09 

Concepts, Practices, and Ethical challenges, Philosophy and Medicine 123

ISBN: 3319541773
ISBN 13: 9783319541778
Autor: Stolberg, Michael
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: viii, 219 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.05.2017
Auflage: 1/2017
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

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 and physicians experienced and dealt with terminal illness. He traces the origins of hospitals for incurable and dying patients and follows the long history of ethical debates on issues like truth-telling and the intentional shortening of the dying patients‘ lives and the controversies they sparked between physicians and patients. An eye opener for anyone interested in the history of ethical decision making regarding terminal care of critically ill patients.

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Autorenporträt

Born in Munich, in 1957, Michael Stolberg is chair of the history of medicine at the University of Würzburg, Germany. He was trained and worked as a physician in internal medicine and intensive care before turning to the history of medicine and obtaining a second doctoral degree in history and philosophy in 1994. He has published a several books and numerous articles on the history of medicine, the history of the body and the history of medical ethics.

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