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Cancer and bioethics: Caring and consensus
Author(s) -
Caplan Arthur L.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.23647
Subject(s) - bioethics , medicine , cancer , palliative care , health care , gerontology , family medicine , nursing , environmental ethics , law , political science , philosophy
The most important area in which cancer care and bioethics intersect is in the care of the dying. It is in the shift toward according more control to patients, more choice in the setting in which death will come, and in the willingness to take palliative care and comfort care seriously that bioethics has most usefully interacted with cancer care in the past and is likely to continue to do so in the future. Cancer 2008;113(7 suppl):1801–6. © 2008 American Cancer Society.