Assistência ao doente moribundo no século XVIII

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Ana Filipa Ladeira Félix da
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/10118
• topic: Cuidados paliativos; Moribundo; Assistência; Morte; Palliative care; Dying person; Assistance; Death; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Médicas::Ciências da Saúde

Palliative care aimed at providing monitoring and assistance to patients suffering or not they want the possibility of healing and want to ensure that patients in end of life are not correctly treated and voted on an undesirable and unacceptable suffering. Although the concept of palliative care is relatively recent, there has always been the tradition of care for patients dying with older roots, as can be seen in documents and texts published in the past. In the eighteenth century and despite the limitations of the time you own and the state of knowledge development, the concerns were already well-known to those who suffered and were in a situation of imminent death. At this point, the process of dying usually happened at home, in bed, being a public act, organized, with a known protocol, which presided over the dying. Death was something familiar and died without fear or despair, resigned and trusting in God, unlike the present concept of medicalized death and hospitalized of our times that this happens to be hidden and disguised with the dying. Despite the historical evolution and science, is still being sought today in the past to find what was achievable good practice and knowledge with current developments and promote the best care and assistance to those in need.