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Palliative Care : The 400-Year Quest for a Good Death
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Palliative Care : The 400-Year Quest for a Good Death Paperback - 2015 - 1st Edition

by Vanderpool, Harold Y

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McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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  • Title Palliative Care : The 400-Year Quest for a Good Death
  • Author Vanderpool, Harold Y
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
  • Date 2015
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 19249801-6
  • ISBN 9780786497997 / 0786497998
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.1 x 6.84 x 0.35 in (25.65 x 17.37 x 0.89 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Topical: Death/Dying
    • Topical: Health & Fitness
  • Library of Congress subjects Terminal care - History, Palliative treatment - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015019241
  • Dewey Decimal Code 616.029

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Citations

  • Booklist, 12/15/2015, Page 8
  • Choice, 12/01/2015, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 08/01/2015, Page 119

About the author

Harold Y. Vanderpool is a professor emeritus of history and philosophy of medicine in the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. His career includes teaching courses on medical ethics, death and dying, and suffering; articles and book chapters on terminal care, and national and international lectures. He lives in Cedar Park, Texas.

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