Malignant : medical ethicists confront cancer /

"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. E...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dresser, Rebecca
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Cancer > Popular works.
Cancer > Patients > Care > Moral and ethical aspects.
Caregivers > Psychology.
Ethics, Medical
Neoplasms > diagnosis
Caregivers > psychology
Neoplasms > psychology
Cancéreux > Soins > Aspect moral.
Aidants naturels > Psychologie.
Éthique médicale.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
Cancer
Caregivers > Psychology
Autobiography.
Autobiography
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Popular works
Autobiographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Crash course / Rebecca Dresser
  • Diagnostic quests and accidents / Norman Fost
  • Learning the bad news / John A. Robertson
  • Coping with uncertainty / Dan W. Brock
  • Autonomy and persuasion / Rebecca Dresser
  • Volunteering for research / Rebecca Dresser
  • Resilience and the art of living in remission / Patricia A. Marshall
  • The allure of questionable-benefit treatment / Dan W. Brock
  • Cancer stereotypes / Rebecca Dresser and Norman Fost
  • Caregivers, patients, and clinicians / John A. Robertson
  • Cancer interactions : caring well and caring badly / Rebecca Dresser and Patricia A. Marshall
  • Support, advocacy, and the selves of people with cancer / Arthur W. Frank
  • Cancer and mortality : making time count / Leon R. Kass
  • Survivorship : in every expression a crack / Arthur W. Frank
  • Last words / Rebecca Dresser.

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