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

• Main Author: Stolberg, Michael (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 123
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ethics.; Medicine > History.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319541785
• ISSN: 0376-7418 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-54178-5
• Physical Description: VIII, 219 p. online resource.

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...