TY - BOOK AU - Dresser, Rebecca (ed) TI - Malignant - medical ethicists confront cancer SN - 0199757844 PY - 2012/// CY - OXFORD PB - Oxford University Press KW - Ethics KW - Ethics, Medical KW - Cancer KW - Neoplasms N1 - 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 N2 - '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 ER -