1: The Religious and the Medical
2: The Rise of Modern Medicine
3: Cancer and Medicine in Historical Perspective
4: Development of Palliative Care Services
5: Development of Pain Control
6: Medicine and Euthanasia
7: Observations and Conclusions
"In addition to the illuminating information on palliative care and
ways that physicians might integrate it into patient-plans,
Medicine and Care also contains excellent chapters on the public
debate involving pain control and euthanasia and the current state
of the 'right-to-die' movement...Readers and students should pay
careful attention: the issues raised by Lewis are not going away
anything soon."--The Electric Review
"This work is extremely well documented and covers the development
of hospice programs in five Anglo-American countries in such detail
that it can serve as a reference on the socioeconomic history of
end-of-life, palliative medicine in the English-speaking
world."--Doody's
"...a well-researched exploration and exposition of the historical
versus contemporary attitudes to, as its title suggests, the care
of the dying. The work is underpinned with a thorough understanding
of the pharmacology of pain control alongside the equally important
components of the non-physical environment. As well, all the
current problems and ethical dilemmas related to the subject get a
thorough airing...it is a book with a universal appeal given
that
the principles of good palliative care and pain management know no
borders."--Metascience
"For those of us in a busy clinical practice it is easy to accept
unquestioningly how palliative care is practiced and services
organized in the country in which we work. This book will jolt the
reflective reader from their comfort zone of the status quo to
question more the wider issues of society, ethics, morality,
religion, culture, and philosophy which should shape practice. How
do we practice the good technical scientific care demanded in an
inreasingly
secular and materialistic world, yet retain the more ethereal
holistic and spiritual aspects of care?...I believe this book will
benefit not only clinical practitioners but also policy makers
charged
with developing services for dying people whether in the developed
or developing world. Finally, the book will challenge all who read
it to consider the wider societal and community approach to
improving care."--Reviewed by Edwin J. Pugh, University of
Teesside, UK, in Mortality
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