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

New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

xiv, 236 pages ; 25 cm

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.