Ethical issues in cancer patient care
By: edited by Peter Angelos.
Contributors: Angelos, Peter.
Series: Cancer treatment and research
Publisher: Kluwer Academic
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Norwell, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Cancer -- Patients -- Care -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Neoplasms -- therapy.; Ethics, Medical.; Palliative Care.; Physician-Patient Relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Physicians and cancer patients: communication and advance directives; title: 2. Information is not enough: the place of statistics in the doctor-patient relationship; title: 3. Cross-cultural issues in caring for patients with cancer; title: 4. Religious/spiritual concerns in caring for the cancer patient; title: 5. Are there limits to oncology care? (futility); title: 6. Role of palliative medicine in cancer patient care; title: 7. Informed consent, the cancer patient, and phase I clinical trials; title: 8. The ethical lessons of managed care applied to clinical trials; title: 9. Kids and cancer: ethical issues in treating the pediatric oncology patient; title: 10. Does reimbursement affect physician decision making?