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- The first book to analyze the long history of palliative care, uncovering debates and practices surrounding terminal care, reaching back for centuries
- Investigates the development of medical debates, practices and institutions as well as at the personal experience of moribund patients and their families
- Links the plurisecular history of palliative care with an analysis of long-term developments in ethical debates and practices
Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 123)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Early Modern Period (1500–1800)
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Front Matter
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Conclusion
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Keywords
- terminal care
- palliative care
- terminal care in practice
- curative treatment
- professional and lay ethos
- the art of dying
- dealing with fatal prognosis
- the first hospices for the dying
- hospitals for incurables
- modern palliative care
- the good death
- ethics of palliative care
- priests at the death-bed
- dying and terminal care
- cura palliativa
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Authors and Affiliations
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Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Michael Stolberg
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A History of Palliative Care, 1500-1970
Book Subtitle: Concepts, Practices, and Ethical challenges
Authors: Michael Stolberg
Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54178-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54177-8Published: 05 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85340-6Published: 25 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54178-5Published: 28 April 2017
Series ISSN: 0376-7418
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 219
Topics: History of Medicine, Ethics