The development by the second half of the twentieth century of new technologies and
effective specific treatments for disease still left much suffering unaddressed. As Professor …

The emergence of the speciality of palliative medicine in the UK has been generally
welcomed and can be seen as a continuation of the attempts to improve the care of dying …

" the thoroughness of the text has to be admired. It is an excellent starting point for students
of palliative care which makes an important contribution to any library."-British Journal of …

Following publication of the first edition in 1993, the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine
rapidly established itself as the definitive textbook on the subject. Each edition has received …

Palliative medicine was first recognised as a specialist field in 1987. One hundred years
earlier, London based doctor William Munk published a treatise on'easeful death'that …

In their first year of work, newly qualified doctors will care for patients who have palliative
care needs or who are dying, and they will need the skills to do this throughout their medical …

It is argued that palliative medicine may be in danger of developing into a specialty
of'symptomatology'. Such a specialty would be confined by the limits of the medical model …