Ethical issues in cancer patient care / edited by Peter Angelos.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer,
c2008.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Cancer treatment and research ;
v. 140. |
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Table of Contents:
- An open letter to doctors / Parvez Kamangar
- Physicians and cancer patients : communication and advance directives / Peter Angelos and Muneera R. Kapadia
- Information is not enough : the place of statistics in the doctor-patient relationship / Kathryn Key Montgomery and Ellen Key Harris-Braun
- Cross-cultural issues in caring for patients with cancer / Tod Chambers
- Hope and communication in cancer care : what patients tell us / Susan Hedlund
- Addressing the spiritual needs of patients / Christina M. Puchalski
- Pediatric cancer care : special issues in ethical decision making / Sarah Zieber and Sarah Friebert
- The ethics of responding to pain and suffering / Timothy F. Murphy
- Are there limits to oncology care ? (Futility ) / Gary R. Shapiro
- The role of palliative medicine in cancer patient care / William M. Mitchell and Charles F. von Gunten
- Holding on and letting go : ethical issues regarding the care of children with cancer / Aviva Goldberg and Joel Frader
- Communicating errors / Christian J. Vercler and Peter Angelos
- Research ethics and the ethics of research : should we offer clinical trial participation or clinical research partnership to oncology patients in the new millennium? / Heather Sampson
- Does reimbursement affect physicians' decision making? Examples from the use of recombinent erythropoietin / June M. McKoy, Cara C. Tigue, and Charles L. Bennett.