Medicine and care of the dying : a modern history
Lewis, Milton JamesAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2007.
Examining the relationship between medicine's approach to care of the terminally ill and the medical, social, political economic and cultural context in the English-speaking world this book is of interest to palliative care practitioners, and health care professionals with an interest in end-of-life care.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Examining the relationship between medicine's approach to care of the terminally ill and the medical, social, political economic and cultural context in the English-speaking world this book is of interest to palliative care practitioners, and health care professionals with an interest in end-of-life care.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The religious and the medical -- The rise of modern medicine -- Cancer and medicine in historical perspective -- Development of palliative care services -- Development of pain control -- Medicine and euthanasia -- Observations and conclusions.
Terminal care
Palliative treatment
Euthanasia
Homicide
Patient Care
History, Modern 1601-
Humanities
Diseases
Therapeutics
Health Services
Social Problems
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services
Sociology
Health Care
Social Sciences
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Palliative Care
Terminal Care
History, 20th Century
Euthanasia
Neoplasms
History, 19th Century
History
Medicine
Health & Biological Sciences
Palliative Care