David Clark

To Comfort Always

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Covers the rise of clinical studies, academic programmes and international collaborations to promote palliative care. It examines the continuing need to provide evidence in support of development and assesses the dilemmas of unequal access to services and pain relieving drugs.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Medical Histories
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780199674282
• ISBN-10: 0199674280
• Artikelnr.: 47870796

Autorenporträt

Professor David Clark is a sociologist at the University of Glasgow. He founded the International Observatory on End of Life Care at Lancaster University in 2003 and has wide ranging interests in the history and global development of palliative care. He has a particular knowledge of the life and work of Dame Cicely Saunders and has edited her letters and selected publications. He has written a History of the Project on Death in America and currently holds a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award for a study entitled Global Interventions at the End of Life.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Nineteenth century doctors and care of the dying
2: Homes for the terminally ill: 1885-1945
3: Interest and disinterest in mid-twentieth century Britain
4: Cicely Saunders and her early associates: A kaleidoscope of effects
5: Defining the clinical realm
6: Specialty recognition and global development
7: Palliative medicine: historical record and challenges that remain
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