Bioethics and cancer: When the professional becomes personal

Hastings Center Report

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 14-18

  Dresser, Rebecca ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; CAREGIVER; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BIOETHICS; CAREGIVERS; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY;

EID: 82555182703     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: 1552146X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1552-146X.2011.tb00152.x     Document Type: Note

References (9)

1. The group consisted of Dan Brock, Norman Fost, Arthur Frank, Leon Kass, Patricia Marshall, John Robertson, and me. The Greenwall Foundation supplied financial support for the project. Although everyone in the group had an opportunity to review and comment on this piece, the description and analysis of our work are my own.
2. Patty Marshall was both a cancer patient and a caregiver for her husband, Larry Heinrich, who died of cancer.
3. Malignant: Medical Ethicists Confront Cancer, ed. R. Dresser (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). Because the essays and transcripts contain highly personal material, we have agreed to keep these documents confidential.
4. A.W. Frank, At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness, 2nd ed. (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1991; repr. 2002), 138.
5. A. Kleinman, The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition (New York: Basic Books, 1988), 31.
6. John Robertson thought this was the reaction bioethics colleagues might have to our project. Similarly, Art Frank predicted that some colleagues would read our accounts and respond, "Nice, but is it bioethics?"
7. J. Katz, The Silent World of Doctor and Patient, 2nd ed. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984; repr. 2002.
8. E. Cassell, The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991; repr. 2004).
9. S. Sontag, "Illness as Metaphor," in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors (New York: Picador, 2001), 3.