In his
recent book, Palliative Care: The 400-Year Quest for a Good Death , [1] Harold
Vanderpool traces the emergence of medical palliation to a proclamation by Sir
Francis Bacon in 1605 challenging physicians to offer and continually improve
palliative medical care and treatment for dying persons.
Florence Nightingale also contributed
significantly to the evolution of what we call palliative care today, although the period
of 1895 to 1959 – a time of great advances in medicine – unfortunately led to
less appropriate care for the dying, though it contributed to discussions about
the ethics of treating the dying. The following period (1960-1981) is described
as a time of momentous transition.
The
influence of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and Cicely Saunders emerged, solidifying
palliative care concepts in the US and UK, and thereafter worldwide.In 2015 the
WHO added palliative care to its family of factsheets for the first time.
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