Retrieving the ars moriendi tradition.
Contains fulltext : 51843.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access) North Atlantic culture lacks a commonly shared view on dying well that helps the dying, their social environment and caregivers to determine their place and role, interpret death and deal with the process of ethical deliberati...
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ftunivnijmegen:oai:repository.ubn.ru.nl:2066/51843 2023-05-15T17:32:44+02:00 Retrieving the ars moriendi tradition. Leget, C.J.W. 2007 http://hdl.handle.net/2066/51843 unknown http://hdl.handle.net/2066/51843 Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 10, 3, pp. 313-9 EBP 4: Quality of Care NCEBP 5: Health care ethics Article / Letter to editor 2007 ftunivnijmegen 2022-09-29T06:06:50Z Contains fulltext : 51843.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access) North Atlantic culture lacks a commonly shared view on dying well that helps the dying, their social environment and caregivers to determine their place and role, interpret death and deal with the process of ethical deliberation. What is lacking nowadays, however, has been part of Western culture in medieval times and was known as the ars moriendi (art of dying well) tradition. In this paper an updated version of this tradition is presented that meets the demands of present day secularized and multiform society. Five themes are central to the new art of dying: autonomy and the self, pain control and medical intervention, attachment and relations, life balance and guilt, death and afterlife. The importance of retrieving the ancient ars moriendi outreaches the boundaries of palliative medicine, since it deals with issues that play a central role in every context of medical intervention and treatment. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Radboud University: DSpace |
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Contains fulltext : 51843.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access) North Atlantic culture lacks a commonly shared view on dying well that helps the dying, their social environment and caregivers to determine their place and role, interpret death and deal with the process of ethical deliberation. What is lacking nowadays, however, has been part of Western culture in medieval times and was known as the ars moriendi (art of dying well) tradition. In this paper an updated version of this tradition is presented that meets the demands of present day secularized and multiform society. Five themes are central to the new art of dying: autonomy and the self, pain control and medical intervention, attachment and relations, life balance and guilt, death and afterlife. The importance of retrieving the ancient ars moriendi outreaches the boundaries of palliative medicine, since it deals with issues that play a central role in every context of medical intervention and treatment. |
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