Total Pain - the Holistic Pain at the End of Life

The Tension Field 'suffering' in the Hospice Movement and in Palliative Care

Authors

  • Elisabeth Medicus

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.57974/Re:visit_2023_2.05

Abstract

Elisabeth Medicus discusses total pain, a concept that in the tradition of hospice and Palliative Care refers to the overwhelming experience of suffering at the end of life, embodied in pain, compounded and intensified by the anguish.

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Published

2023-11-30

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023): Pain and Compassion

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Reports

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