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  title info:
    title: Medicine and care of the dying
    sub title: a modern history
  name:
    name part: Lewis, Milton James.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (277 pages)
  abstract: "It seems that modern medicine has put the cure of bodies before the care of persons. Some scholars attribute this to a metaphysical heritage of dualism and reductionism.
  abstract: This heritage has become problematic in the modern age when waning belief in a divine order leaves the individual self as the bearer of meaning. At the same time, knowledge about nature and society has been increasing at such an accelerated pace, it has become even more difficult to develop a unified secular worldview.
  abstract: When the dying self contemplates its own disintegration in this context, the search for meaning may rest heavy indeed."
  abstract: "Chapters one and two address these larger issues. Chapter three focuses on medicine's approach to cancer as a prime example of the strengths and weaknesses of the research imperative.
  abstract: Chapter four looks at the diffusion of the theory and practice of palliative care throughout the Anglo Saxon world. The fifth chapter discusses the development of effective pain control, essential to palliative care and one of modern medicine's unsung triumphs.
  abstract: The sixth chapter addresses the changing meaning of euthanasia in Western history in the past century, as it transitioned from a philosophical position to a widely-debated policy proposal."
  abstract: "This book is for palliative care practitioners, and all health care professionals with an interest in end-of-life care
  abstract: It is also for students in palliative care and the history of medicine, and for anyone interested in the history of this intriguing field."--Jacket
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Milton J. Lewis.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-260) and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Terminal care
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Palliative treatment
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Euthanasia
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Terminal Care
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Euthanasia
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: History, 19th Century
  subject:
    topic: History, 20th Century
  subject:
    topic: Neoplasms
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Palliative Care
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Soins en phase terminale
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Soins palliatifs
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Euthanasie
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Médecine
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 19e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Médecine
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Euthanasia
  subject:
    topic: Palliative treatment
  subject:
    topic: Terminal care
  classification: R726.8 .L484 2007
  classification: 616/.029
  classification: WB 310 L675m 2007
  classification: 44.59
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    title info:
      title: Medicine and care of the dying
    name:
      name part: Lewis, Milton James.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
    identifier: (DLC) 2006003085
    identifier: (OCoLC)63279488
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    record content source: VLB
    record creation date: 120530
    record change date: 20260318190528.2
    record identifier: in00005708187
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng