Open AccessPalliative Care in Turkish Medical History
Author(s) -
Alparslan Koç
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
anestezi dergisi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.113
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2687-2242
pISSN - 1300-0578
DOI - 10.5222/jarss.2021.50455
Subject(s) - turkish , palliative care , quality of life (healthcare) , medicine , health care , westernization , curative care , value (mathematics) , history of medicine , nursing , psychology , sociology , psychiatry , political science , law , ambulatory care , philosophy , linguistics , modernization theory , machine learning , computer science
From the moment that human beings begin perceiving the value of life, they have also started to strive for the continuation of life. It would not be wrong to divide Turkish societies into three parts as sociological history. Turkish social life before Islam, the differences in the social structure with Islam, and Europe's social structure with the westernization influx with the end of the 19th century can be examined. Health system and patient care was also greatly affected by these processes. Health care, which was carried on with Shamanism and Herbalism in the old Turkish states and continued with bimarhanes and darüssifas, and health professionals have been mobilized to serve the society with the opportunities of modern medicine today. Acute and chronic diseases that occur with the continuation of life make it difficult to lead a quality life. This process can sometimes be painful. Palliative care is also useful in chronic diseases whose mortality has decreased with successful treatment methods recently applied, but which impairs the quality of life due to the disease. Thus, this process, which puts the patient's relatives psychologically, socially, and financially difficult, and the patient, can be managed more easily. Although it started with reducing and caring for cancer patients' pain, palliative care has now become a necessity in all areas of clinical practice. Our aim in this review is to examine the development process of the concept of palliative care in Turkish medical history.