This book tells the stories of seven people with a distinct perspective on cancer. Experts on medical ethics, personal experience showed them how little they knew about the real world of serious illness. In this book, they describe cancer's teachings on ethics, medicine, and the experience of illness. '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. Despite years of teaching and writing about treatmentdecision-making and patient autonomy, they were unprepared for many of the problems they faced. They discovered that the rights and wrongs of cancer care were more complicated than they had anticipated. Ethics outside the hospital walls took on unexpected significance as they discovered the astonishinggenerosity, and the unintentional cruelty, that cancer provokes in others. Cancer was a test of personal character, too, as patients accustomed to control became dependent on others and caregivers shouldered unfamiliar and difficult responsibilities. INDICE: 1 Crash Course 1 Rebecca Dresser 2 Diagnostic Quests and Accidents21 Norman Fost 3 Learning the Bad News 39 John A. Robertson 4 Coping with Uncertainty 61 Dan W. Brock 5 Autonomy and Persuasion 80 Rebecca Dresser 6 Volunteering for Research 99 Rebecca Dresser 7 Resilience and the Art of Living in Remission 122 Patricia A. Marshall 8 The Allure of Questionable-Benefit Treatment 147 Dan W. Brock 9 Cancer Stereotypes 169 Rebecca Dresser and Norman Fost 10 Caregivers, Patients, and Clinicians 192 John A. Robertson 11 Cancer Interactions: Caring Well and Caring Badly 217 Rebecca Dresser and Patricia A. Marshall 12 Support, Advocacy, and the Selves of People with Cancer 236 Arthur W. Frank 13 Cancer and Mortality: Making Time Count 255 Leon R. Kass 14 Survivorship: In Every Expression a Crack 278 Arthur W. Frank 15 Last Words 301 Rebecca Dresser
- ISBN: 978-0-19-975784-8
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 15/03/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés