The cancer experience
Subtitle: the doctor, the patient, the journey
By: Roy B. Sessions
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781442216211; 9781442216235
Subjects: Patients; Psychological aspects; Moral and ethical aspects; Cancer; Care
Description: Navigating the tumultuous waters of cancer treatment and decision making is difficult for all patients. It is also difficult for doctors and other medical personnel. This books deals with a variety of emotion-related and ethics issues that form much of the basis of the world of cancer related medicine: the responsibilities of the physician relative to truth, full disclosure, patient autonomy, death and dying, physician assisted suicide, and suicide in general among cancer patients.