Suffering and dying well: on the proper aim of palliative care
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Suffering and dying well: on the proper aim of palliative care
In recent years a large empirical literature has appeared on suffering at the end of life. In this literature it is recognized that suffering has existential and social dimensions in addition to physical and psychological ones. The non-physical aspects of suffering, however, are still understood as pathological symptoms, to be reduced by therapeutical interventions as much as possible. But suff...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1386-7423,1572-8633
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-017-9764-3