Palliative Care: a look through history
Keywords:
Bioethics, Palliative Care, Pain, Disease, HistoryAbstract
Introduction: the human species with its emergence and subsequent development has had to deal with the pain of the outbreak of a disease with no possible cure and the feeling of closeness to death. Throughout history and consequently with its intellectual development, this care has been perfected, until reaching what we know today as palliative care.
Objective: describe the development of palliative care throughout history.
Method: an updated bibliographic review was carried out in relation to the topic, with a total of 14 bibliographies. Scientific articles in English, Spanish and Portuguese were used, available in databases such as: Scielo, Elsevier and in the Google Scholar search engine.
Development: palliative care consists of therapeutic action aimed at mitigating the discomfort caused by an illness in which an end other than death is not possible. Its main objective is to battle the pain suffered by patients in terminal stages. They do not seek to prolong the patient's suffering, since their objective is to alleviate suffering, based on the principles of bioethics.
Conclusions: throughout history and in accordance with different cultures and times, palliative care has undergone changes until it reaches what it is today. They represent the best therapeutic option in the face of the imminent arrival of death, providing relief to the patient during the last stage of her life.
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