Can I read Ethical Challenges in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy on EtoBox?

Ethical Challenges in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy by Axel W. Bauer; Ralf-Dieter Hofheinz; Jochen S. Utikal is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Ethical Challenges in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy about?

"This book presents in detail the problems and ethical challenges in daily oncological practice. In western industrialized countries, roughly 25 percent of all citizens still die from cancer. Despite significant progress in basic science and in individual areas of clinical care, even in the 21st century, being diagnosed with cancer has lost none of its dread and can still be a death sentence. This situation raises many problems and challenges for medical ethics, e.g., the question of the benefits and risks of prevention programs, or the right to know and not to know. Clinical trials with cancer patients and quality assurance for surgery, radiotherapy and medication also pose a series of ethical dilemmas. Furthermore, cancer treatment is a psychological challenge not only for patients but also for physicians and caregivers. The issues of adequate pain management and good palliative care, of treatment limiting and the question of assisted suicide at the end of life also have to be considered. In order to reflect the subject's diverse and multifaceted nature, the book incorporates legal, ethnographic, historical and literary perspectives into ethical considerations"--Publisher's descr

Who reads Ethical Challenges in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy?

Author

Axel W. Bauer; Ralf-Dieter Hofheinz; Jochen S. Utikal

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030637507

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Medicine