Malignant : medical ethicists confront cancer / edited by Rebecca Dresser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dresser, Rebecca.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cancer--Popular works.

Cancer.

Cancer--Patients--Care--Moral and ethical aspects.

Caregivers--Psychology.

Caregivers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""You have cancer."" Words no one wants to hear, but heard by millions every year. Millions more hear the equally shattering news that a loved one has cancer. Both are life-changing messages. For the people writing this book, cancer was not only a personal crisis, it was also an education. Experts on medical ethics, personal experience with cancer showed them how little they understood of the real world of serious illness. Despite years of teaching and writing about treatment decision-making and patient autonomy, they were unprepared for many of the problems they faced. They discovered that th

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1 Crash Course; 2 Diagnostic Quests and Accidents; 3 Learning the Bad News; 4 Coping with Uncertainty; 5 Autonomy and Persuasion; 6 Volunteering for Research; 7 Resilience and the Art of Living in Remission; 8 The Allure of Questionable-Benefit Treatment; 9 Cancer Stereotypes; 10 Caregivers, Patients, and Clinicians; 11 Cancer Interactions: Caring Well and Caring Badly; 12 Support, Advocacy, and the Selves of People with Cancer; 13 Cancer and Mortality: Making Time Count; 14 Survivorship: In Every Expression a Crack; 15 Last Words; Index; A; B; C; D; E

FG; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-62143-6

9786613933881

0-19-992110-5

OCLC:

811562957