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The 37th (i.e. the 1998) edition of Tierney, Mcphee and Papadakis’ Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment has a chapter, written by two physicians, on “Care at End of Life.”1 There it is—Chapter 5— in the same typeface, with the same sort of tables, and the same arrangement of the page as its fellow chapters on renal failure, neoplasm, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. This is, as far as I know, the first chapter on death and dying in a major English language medical textbook and it marks something of a landmark.
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Rabow, Michael W. and Robert V. Brody, “Care at the End of Life,” in L.M. Tierney, Jr., S.J. Mcphee, and M. A. Papadakis, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, (37 th ed., Stamford, CT: Appleton and Lange, 1998) Chapter 5, pp. 107–111.
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There are two excellent dissertations and a contemporary collection of documents which deal with this, the first serious medical confrontation with death as a diagnostic and analytic category: Patak, Martin. Die Angst vor dem Scheintod in der 2. Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts. (Zurich, Juris-Verlag, 1967.) in the series Züricher medizingeschichtliche Abhandlungen. Neue Reihe; Nr. 44; Stoessel, Ingrid, Scheintod und Todesangst: Äusserungsformen der Angst in ihren geschichtlichen Wandlungen (17.-20. Jahrhundert),(Köln: Forschungsstelle des Instituts für Geschichte der Medizin der Universität zu Köln, 1983; and Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm, Der Scheintod, oder, Sammlung der wichtigen Thatsachen und Bemerkungen daruber, in alphabetischer Ordnung (1808) herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Gerhard Kopf. (Bern, New York: P. Lang, 1986) Hufeland was a great friend of Goethe, Schiller, and Herder during his Weimar years, 1783–93, and later became professor of medicine in Berlin. He was at the forefront of the battle to bring Jenner and smallpox vaccination to the German states.
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The questionnaires for this study are in the archives of the McGill University Library.
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First edition, 1986. I quote from the 1990 paperback edition, New York: Harper Collins.
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Laqueur, T.W. (2001). “Dying Well” and the Doctors. In: Willich, S.N., Elm, S. (eds) Medical Challenges for the New Millennium. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9708-1_2
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