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Malignant - medical ethicists confront cancer

By:

Dresser, Rebecca (ed)

Publication details: OXFORD : Oxford University Press, 2012ISBN:

0199757844
9780199757848

Subject(s):

Contents:

Crash course; Diagnositc quests and accidents; Learning the bad news; Coping with uncertainty; Autonomy and persuasion; Volunteering for research; Resilience and the art of living in remission; The allure of questionable-benefit treatment; Cancer stereotypes; Caregivers, patients, and clinicians; Cancer interactions: caring well and caring badly; Support, advocacy, and the selves of people with cancer; Cancer and mortality: making time count; Survivorship: in every expression a crack; Last words

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

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Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	David Adams Library (Royal Marsden) Shelves	WY85 DRE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		0000007053

'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

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