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A History of Palliative Care, 1500-1970

Part of the Philosophy and Medicine Book Series (volume 123)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-54178-5

ISBN: 978-3-319-54177-8

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Apr 29, 2017

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Introduction

Stolberg, Michael

Pages: 1 –11

[This is the first monographic study on the long history of palliative care. The story of the rise of the hospice movement and of modern palliative medicine since the 1960s has often been told. As this book shows, the frequently excruciating suffering that people went through during the last...
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Caring for Terminally Ill Patients

Stolberg, Michael

Pages: 15 –49

[This chapter identifies early uses of the term “palliative cure” in the late Middle Ages already and describes its growing usage from the sixteenth century onwards. It studies the contemporary meanings of the term “palliative”, which also carried connotations of “merely” covering up the symptoms...
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Ethical Challenges

Stolberg, Michael

Pages: 51 –68

[This chapter studies the early modern debates on major ethical challenges that arose in palliative care and which are still at the heart of medical ethics today: The permissibility of intentionally shortening of a dying person’s life, of giving medicines to alleviate a patient’s suffering that...
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The Experience of Death and Terminal Care in Everyday Life

Stolberg, Michael

Pages: 69 –86

[This chapter approaches the experience of dying in the early modern period. Citing contemporary accounts of the excruciating suffering that cancer patients, in particular, often went through, it underlines the outstanding importance of good palliative care. It highlights some of major...
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The Rise and Fall of Euthanasia Medica

Stolberg, Michael

Pages: 89 –97

[This chapter shows, how the notion of “euthanasia medica” and the belief that it was the physician’s task to provide a “good” death resonated more and more in contemporary medical culture and reached a climax in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Numerous authors devoted chapters...
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The Practice of Palliative Treatment

Stolberg, Michael

Pages: 99 –111

[This chapter offers an in-depth analysis of the various means that physicians and nurses used in order to alleviate the sufferings of dying patients, especially in the first half of the nineteenth century. It shows, in particular, the outstanding place of opium, as a painkiller but also as a...
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The Doctor as an Emotional and Spiritual Caregiver

Stolberg, Michael

Pages: 113 –116

[This brief chapter focusses on the role of the physician as a provider of emotional and spiritual support at the deathbed. Nineteenth-century works on “euthanasia medica” considered this an important aspect of terminal care. This conviction heightened frictions between physicians and priests at...
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The Perspective of Patients

Stolberg, Michael

Pages: 117 –121

[This relatively short chapter draws on the – unfortunately rather rare – personal testimonies of dying patients and of those who took care of them as well as on literary, fictional accounts, in order to throw some light and personal, subjective experience of suffering in the nineteenth and early...
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Ethical Controversies

Stolberg, Michael

Pages: 123 –146

[This chapter traces the changing attitudes towards some of the major ethical issues surrounding terminal care. It shows that already by about 1800, individual doctors, in Germany, publically endorsed active euthanasia in certain cases. Even around 1900, when a lay movement for the legalization...
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Institutional Care

Stolberg, Michael

Pages: 147 –172

[This chapter traces the long history of institutional care for moribund and dying patients. While the medieval and early modern “hospices” share little more than the name with it, the modern hospice has a more immediate predecessor in the “hospitals for the incurable sick” that were established...

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