Research Catalog

Title

Palliative care : the 400-year quest for a good death / Harold Y. Vanderpool.

Author

Vanderpool, Harold Y.

Publication

• Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Description

x, 269 pages; 26 cm

Summary

"Providing a detailed picture of contemporary palliative care, this book chronicles four centuries of professional and personal advances in the quest for a good death, covering the fight against futile treatments, the history of life-extending treatments and technologies, the liberation of the dying from isolation in hospitals and hard-won victories to secure patients' right to choose"

Subject

• Palliative treatment
• Terminal care
• Right to die
• Palliative treatment
• Palliative Care
• Terminal Care
• Hospice Care
• Right to Die
• History, Early Modern 1451-1600

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-263) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- From proclamation to recognition: 1605-1772 -- Minute details and codified conduct:1789-1825 -- That science called euthanasia:1826-1854 -- Polarities between attention and disregard: 1859-1894 -- Challenging the overreach of modern medicine: 1895-1935 -- Never say die versus care for the dying: 1935-1959 -- Times of momentous transition: 1960-1981 -- Progress, threatening seas, and endurance: 1982-1999 -- Choices: 2000 to the present -- Epilogue -- Chapter Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780786497997
• 0786497998
• 9781476619712 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015019241

OCLC

892463176

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library