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Malignant : medical ethicists confront cancer / edited by Rebecca Dresser.

Contributor(s): Dresser, Rebecca.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012General Notes: Includes index.Description: xiv, 236 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780199757848 (alk. paper); 0199757844 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Cancer | Cancer -- Patients -- Care -- Moral and ethical aspects | Caregivers -- Psychology | Medical ethicsDDC classification: 174.2/96994
Contents:
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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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 174.2 M295 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34284003134558

Includes index.

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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