Ethical Challenges in Oncology [E-book]

Ethics and Organizational Identity in a Cancer Care Setting; Experience Matters: A Partnership Between Patient and Physician; Patient Experience and End-of-Life Care: A Discussion and Analysis of Four Patients; Ethical Issues for Children With Cancer; Ethical Issues in Cancer Survivorship; Integrative oncology and ethics; Clinician experience : some current ethical considerations; The ethical imperative of providers to engage patients and families in improvement; Ethical considerations in human subjects research : emerging issues in cancer research; Ethical concerns when cancer patients become human research participants and are treated on clinical trials; Training current and future leaders; Ethics in cancer patient training; Commercialism in cancer care; A perspective of the cost of cancer care; Mergers, acquisitions and consolidations in the health-care industry: does bigger have ethical consequences?; Diversity and health care; An ethical framework for disclosing individual genetic findings to patients, research, participants and relatives; Ethical issues of cancer center administrators; Ethics and information technology; Index

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Ethical Challenges in Oncology: Patient Care, Research, Education, and Economics covers a wide variety of topics and viewpoints about ethical issues that arise in oncology throughout the full cancer care continuum. This book provides a holistic view on oncology ethics, incorporating the knowledge and expertise of authors from various departments and oncology specialties within the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.