Palliative Medicine And The Medicalization Of Death

Palliative medicine and the medicalization of death

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7711969/

After a brief discussion of the 'medicalization' of death and an overview of the hospital care of dying people, the paper identifies five concerns about the development of the speciality of palliative medicine in Britain. These are: the lack of clarity about its remit; a potential …

How Do Medicalization and Rescue Fantasy Prevent …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-do-medicalization-and-rescue-fantasy-prevent-healthy-dying/2018-08

Between hope and acceptance: the medicalisation of dying

https://www.bmj.com/content/324/7342/905.1

Palliative care has encouraged medicine to be gentler in its acceptance of death, yet medical services in general continue to regard death as something to be …

Palliative medicine and the medicalization of death

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-2354.1994.tb00014.x

Palliative medicine and the medicalization of death DAVID FIELD BA, MA, AM, PhD Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Leicester, Clinical Sciences …

Suffering and medicalization at the end of life: The case …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27821302/

Proponents further limit palliative care's ability to alleviate suffering at the end of life and even go so far as to claim that in some instances, palliative care produces suffering. …

End-of-life care: What’s the physician role in healthy dying?

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/end-life-care-what-s-physician-role-healthy-dying

Today, the medicalization of death has enabled patients to delay death, prolonging their living and dying. New technology, media influence, and medical professionals seem to have transformed dying …

The medicalization of death: What does it mean and …

https://lowninstitute.org/how-death-became-medicalized-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/

The medicalization of death. Medicalization refers to the process by which aspects of human life become considered as medical problems. For example, low …

Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life

https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/127/3/589/17780/Modern-Death-How-Medicine-Changed-the-End-of-Life

The essential pivot-point of Western medicine’s decision-making revolves around the tenet to “do no harm.” This becomes the unspoken subtext of the book, implicitly challenging …

Palliative medicine and the medicalization of death

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2354.1994.tb00014.x

In part, this reflects a more general ambivalence and concern about the role of medicine in terminal care. After a brief discussion of the‘medicalization’of death and an overview of …

Palliative medicine and the medicalization of death.

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Palliative medicine and the medicalization of death. D. Field. Published 1 June 1994. Medicine, Political Science. European journal of cancer care. The emergence …