Issues
Magazine issues
Main magazine (COLUMBA) issues from our catalogue. Each page can include cover art, PDF, and the paired children’s edition when published.

COLUMBA — main magazine · 2017-03
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The third COLUMBA edition of 2017 explores spaces for living and dying, philosophical aspects of the physician–patient conversation, how much dying is bearable, burnout prevention in palliative care, and life stages with spiritual perspectives.
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COLUMBA — main magazine · 2017-02
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The second 2017 COLUMBA edition explores children's and youth hospice work, palliative medicine as a specialty, grief as a leadership task, the first court ruling on overtreatment at end of life, hypnosis in palliative medicine, and dying in everyday clinical practice.
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COLUMBA — main magazine · 2017-01
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The first 2017 COLUMBA edition covers men's grief, children's hospice care, assisted dying and palliative care from an anthropological view, being present before farewell, and the book presentation to Federal Health Minister Hermann Gröhe.
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COLUMBA — main magazine · 2016-04
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The fourth and final 2016 COLUMBA edition focuses on acceptance and hope at life's end, the debate on assisted dying, overtreatment, rituals in caring for the seriously ill, acupressure in palliative care, and grief support for children and families.
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COLUMBA — main magazine · 2016-03
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The third 2016 COLUMBA edition highlights pharmacists in palliative care, star children and grief support, spiritual care, craniosacral approaches, and the diverse world of hospice and palliative volunteering.
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COLUMBA — main magazine · 2016-02
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The second 2016 COLUMBA edition explores palliative care and politics, voluntary fasting at end of life, spiritual perspectives, palliative cardiology, and dying at home — with personal stories, cartoons, and a visit to Irmengardhof on Lake Chiemsee.
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COLUMBA — main magazine · 2016-01
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COLUMBA is the Palliativ-Portal magazine — published quarterly for professionals, families, and everyone engaged with palliative medicine, hospice work, and end-of-life companionship. The first 2016 edition covers children's books on death and grief, the new hospice and palliative care act, ethical case discussions, and the Munich children's palliative centre.
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