Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care 0-07-145415-2 By examining the theories of

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Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care 0-07-145415-2 By examining the theories ofDeath, dying, loss, and care giving are not just medical issues, but societal ones. Palliative care has become increasingly professionalised, focused around symptom science. With this emphasis on minimizing the harms of physical, psychological, and spiritual stress, there has been a loss of how cultures and communities look after their dying, with the wider social experience of death often sidelined in the professionalisation and medicalisation of