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Learning While Caring - Reflections on a Half-Century of Cancer Practice, Research, Education, and Ethics (Hardcover)
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Learning While Caring - Reflections on a Half-Century of Cancer Practice, Research, Education, and Ethics (Hardcover)
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In the last half century, a revolution in biology and medicine has
taken place, bringing about emerging practical, philosophical, and
societal issues with which academia in general, and medicine and
oncology in particular, must grapple. One witness to this
revolution is Samuel B. Hellman, a radiation oncologist who has
served as Dean of the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University
of Chicago; Physician-in-Chief at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center; Chair of Radiation Therapy at Harvard Medical School;
President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology; President
of the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology; and
co-editor with Dr. Vincent DeVita of seven editions of Cancer:
Principles and Practice of Oncology, the premier oncology text in
the world. Learning While Caring offers a collection of Dr.
Hellman's essays and articles, in which he delves into the issues
brought about by advances and changes in medicine over the last
fifty years. The essays are organized into five sections: Medical
Ethics and Learning; Academic Medicine; Research; Perceptions of
Cancer; and Heroes. Each section is introduced by a new commentary
from Dr. Hellman on the historical aspects and current significance
of the issues presented in that section's essays. Throughout, Dr.
Hellman interweaves reflections on major aspects of his
professional career and the times in which they occurred as
examples of the challenges and controversies that confront
oncology, medicine, and academia. The book concludes with "Summing
Up," reviewing changes in medical practice and biological science
and concluding that, despite these huge changes, certain things
remain the same, especially the primary obligation of the doctor to
the patient and the need to seek and test new knowledge. Dr.
Hellman writes, "We are currently at the end of the beginning of
the revolution in biology and medicine resulting from the
understanding of how genetic information was passed generationally.
Our capacities are far greater now but the essence of medical
practice and our responsibility to the patient remains the same."
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