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The struggle to help critically ill patients has challenged and troubled physicians throughout history. This essay examines three periods in which illuminating discussions of this occur — the Hippocratic era of Greek medicine (5th–3rd century B.C.), American medicine of the nineteenth, and the twentieth centuries.
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Reiser, S.J. (1985). Critical Care in an Historical Context. In: Moskop, J.C., Kopelman, L. (eds) Ethics and Critical Care Medicine. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5233-1_16
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