The Cancer Experience: The Doctor, the Patient, the Journey

by Roy B. Sessions

Book Overview

Navigating the tumultuous waters of cancer treatment and decision making is difficult for all patients. It is also difficult for doctors and other medical personnel. This books deals with a variety of emotion-related and ethics issues that form much of the basis of the world of cancer related medicine: the responsibilities of the physician relative to truth, full disclosure, patient autonomy, death and dying, physician assisted suicide, and suicide...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442216212
• ISBN13: 9781442216211
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher