Bibliographic Information
- Title
- "Palliative care perspectives"
- Statement of Responsibility
- James L. Hallenbeck
- Publisher
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- Oxford University Press
- 2 edition
- Publication Year
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- [2022]
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Notes
Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary: "Over the centuries healers have been called upon to palliate, or "make better," myriad afflictions. Only in recent times has the notion arisen that our primary goal is to identify and cure diseases, thereby prolonging life and, presumably, preventing distressing symptoms and associated suffering. The medical advances made in recent decades are indeed so astonishing that one could almost forgive those who would hope that a cure-based medical system might eliminate scourges such as pain, chronic illness, and the debilitations of old age. However, we remain mortal. I recall a scene from Bernado Bertolucci's film Little Buddha in which a child sits with a wise, old monk looking out over a bustling city in Nepal. "What is impermanence?" asks the child. The monk answers, "See these people. All of us and all the people alive today. One hundred years from now we'll all be dead. That is impermanence." Intellectually, I understand the truth of this statement. However that more than 6 billion people will die i
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1130854725981640607
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- NII Book ID
- BC09895871
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- ISBN
- 9780197542910
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- LCCN
- 2021045003
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- Web Site
- https://lccn.loc.gov/2021045003
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Country Code
- us
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- Title Language Code
- en
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- Place of Publication
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- New York, NY
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- Subject
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- LCSH: Palliative treatment
- LCSH: Terminal care
- LCSH: Physician and patient
- MESH: Palliative Care -- methods
- MESH: Attitude to Death
- MESH: Pain Management
- MESH: Physician-Patient Relations
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- Data Source
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- CiNii Books