The rising global cancer pandemic : health, ethics, and social justice / edited by Andrea Vicini, Philip J. Landrigan, and Kurt Straif.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vicini, Andrea, editor.

Landrigan, Philip J., editor.

Straif, Kurt, editor.

Series:

Global theological ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cancer.

Pandemics--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Pandemics.

Cancer--Health aspects.

Cancer--Social aspects.

Cancer--Moral and ethical aspects.

Medical ethics--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

viii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

EUGENE : PICKWICK PUBLICATIONS, 2022.

Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, [2023]

Summary:

"Andrea Vicini, SJ, [and other contributors, stress] the need to address the global cancer pandemic, while the world struggles with the ongoing pandemic caused by COVID-19. Cancer affects millions of people. It is the first or second cause of death in 134 countries, the leading cause of death in most high-income countries (i.e., 10 million deaths in 2020), and the leading cause of death by disease in American children. Cancer is also unjust. Striking inequities can be traced within and between countries in cancer incidence and survival by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic-status. Survival is much higher among the wealthy than among the poor. Hence, this volume presupposes that health can be promoted in ethically just ways with great benefit for individuals, populations across continents, and the whole planet. Health is a comprehensive and inclusive good. What threatens health could be, at the same time, what stimulates renewed ways the human capacities to rise to the occasion and protect, promote, and restore health. While this volume focuses on the cancer pandemic, the authors' contributions point to a holistic ethical framework. Everything concerning the health of individuals and populations is inseparably interconnected, as the stress on the social and political determinants of health exemplifies." -- Excerpted from the introduction.

Contents:

Introduction / Andrea Vicini, SJ

The global cancer pandemic: trends and disparities / Kurt Straif

Driving forces of the epidemic: a polluted and polluting planet / Philip J. Landrigan

Ethical spending in addressing cancer treatment, screening, and prevention / Arvind Kumar, Raja M. Flores

Health care access and coverage for cancer patients: an ethical imperative / Lilian Ferrer, Rodrigo Lopez, Francisca Lopez, Maria Isabel Catoni

Cancer, global, pandemic, health, ethics, and social justice: a meditation on some five-letter words that are pervasive accelerants / Richard J. Jackson

The role of policy in prevention: protecting people and the environment / Nsedu Obot Witherspoon

Talking God and talking cancer: why womanist ethics matters for breast cancer prevention and control among Black women / Elizabeth A. Williams

Social inequities and social justice: crafting ethical priorities for a global journey with cancer / Conor M. Kelly

Navigating the continuum of care: common goods and uncommon experiences / Christian Cintron

Major cancer problems and prosepcts for prevention in Asia / Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan

Major cancer problems and prospects for prevention: a European perspective / Walter Ricciardi

The rising cancer pandemic in Latin America: major cancer problems and prospects for prevention / Michail K. Shafir

Ruminations from a patient to future provider: cancer as a lifelong journey / Bridgette Merriman

Climbing together / Woody Hubbell

A cancer diagnosis: raw emotion, front and center

how life changes in a second / Laura Campbell

Another reason to bring cancer into the realm of global public health: the insularity of cancer patients and how global public health might get them better connected / James F. Kennan, SJ

A global strategy for eliminating cervical cancer: challenges and opportunities / Silvia de Sanjose

Cancer in the context of global inequities and disparities in COVID times: an ethical reflection / Andrea Vicini, SJ.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references.

ISBN:

9781666753356

1666753351

166675336X

9781666753363

OCLC:

1370218166

Publisher Number:

99993273200