Malignant
Subtitle: medical ethicists confront cancer
By: edited by Rebecca Dresser
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780199757848
Subjects: Autobiography; Psychology; Cancer; Neoplasms; Caregivers; Patients; Diagnosis; Moral ans ethical aspects; Medical Ethics; Popular works; Care
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Crash course / Rebecca Dresser; title: Diagnostic quests and accidents / Norman Fost; title: Learning the bad news / John A. Robertson; title: Coping with uncertainty / Dan W. Brock; title: Autonomy and persuasion / Rebecca Dresser; title: Volunteering for research / Rebecca Dresser; title: Resilience and the art of living in remission / Patricia A. Marshall; title: The allure of questionable-benefit treatment / Dan W. Brock; title: Cancer stereotypes / Rebecca Dresser and Norman Fost; title: Caregivers, patients, and clinicians / John A. Robertson; title: Cancer interactions : caring well and caring badly / Rebecca Dresser and Patricia A. Marshall; title: Support, advocacy, and the selves of people with cancer / Arthur W. Frank; title: Cancer and mortality : making time count / Leon R. Kass; title: Survivorship : in every expression a crack / Arthur W. Frank; title: Last words / Rebecca Dresser.