Delbert Yip’s Reviews > A History of Palliative Care, 1500-1970: Concepts, Practices, and Ethical challenges > Status Update

Hospitals and the first real hospices, versus the French “hospices”

Interesting development and approach to trust, with short closing on the more ‘natural’ lay attitude towards death, which I’ve noticed in other, older media, too

Few short chapters which weren’t superfluous in the least. Some great quotes that I’ll try to remember.

180 on how to nurse the dying.

The shift from religious norms to worldly ideals gave me a new perspective on value/virtue systems. Made it out of the 19th and 20th centuries, where euthanasia, or a good death, and, in particular, how different members of society, especially physicians, went about granting it, changed quite drastically via effective sedatives and painkillers.

Some typos. I like the examples.