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- (Author)
Other Authors: Kennedy, Logan (Translator), Unglaub, Leonhard (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.
Series:Philosophy and medicine ; v. 123.
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central