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Malignant - Medical Ethicists Confront Cancer (Hardcover)
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Malignant - Medical Ethicists Confront Cancer (Hardcover)
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'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 treatment decision-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
astonishing generosity, 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. In
chapters on cancer diagnosis, treatment choices, and research
participation, the authors examine medical ethics from the personal
point of view. In chapters on family caregiving, cancer
interactions, and cancer support groups, they consider ethics
outside the medical setting. In chapters on mortality and
survivorship, they reflect on cancer's personal moral teachings.
Cancer is an unavoidable feature of modern life. Readers will come
away with a deeper understanding of what it is like to have cancer,
better equipped to respond to cancer in their own lives and the
lives of others. The book also offers insights to doctors and
nurses seeking to improve cancer treatment and to medical ethicists
seeking to make their work more relevant to patients and
caregivers. "Rebecca Dresser's idea for a book on cancer was an
inspired one. In bringing together a group of people from the field
of bioethics with personal experience of cancer, as survivors or
caretakers, we see in moving detail what it is like to wrestle with
the disease. It will offer those with cancer or caring for those
with it uncommon insight and wisdom. If one has to think about or
deal with the disease, one can hardly ask for more."- Dan Callahan,
The Hastings Center
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