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Table of Contents:

• Learning from the world: the editor's perspective
• Information, truth, and communication: for an interpretation of truth-telling practices throughout the world
• Pt.1. General discussions
• Cancer patients and medical practice: some historical and cultural considerations
• A discourse ethics approach to quality of life measurement
• Truth, disease, and prognosis: an historical-anthropological analysis
• Truth in the relationship between cancer patient and physician
• Truth, science, and the oncologist
• Truth-telling, risk and hope
• On the spirituality of the doctor-patient relationship
• Communication with the patient in clinical research
• Pt.2. Africa
• Is it wise to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to a cancer patient?
• Communication with the cancer patient in Nigeria: information and truth
• Transcultural and language problems in communicationg with cancer patients in Southern Africa
• Communication with the cancer patient in Zimbabwe
• Pt.3. The Americas
• Talking to a child with cancer: a valuable experience
• Argentina: telling the truth to cancer patients in a multicultural society
• Communication with the cancer patient: information and truth in Brazil

• Ethical dimensions and communications issues in nursing patients with advanced metastatic cancer
• Effective communication with cancer patients: the use of analogies - a suggested approach
• Communication of the cancer diagnosis to Mexican patients: attitudes of patients and physicians
• The child with cancer: influence of culture on truth-telling and patient care
• Health care in the United States: a perspective from the front line
• The psychological repercussions of New York State's do-not-resuscitate law: an American experience with mandated "truth-telling"
• Walking a difficult path is easier with a friend: thoughts from a practicing oncologist
• Pt.4. Asia and the Middle East
• Communication with the cancer patient in China
• From paper to practice: quality of life in a developing country. The challenges that face us
• Commuication with the cancer patient in Iran: information and truth
• The impact of perceived behavior on patient-physician satisfaction
• Telling the truth to cancer patients and patients with HIV-1 infection in Japan
• Truth-telling practice in cancer care in Japan
• Communication with cancer patients: experiences in Pakistan
• Communicating with cancer patients in Saudi Arabia
• Pt.5. Australia and Oceania
• Communication with cancer patients in culturally diverse societies
• Talking with patients suffering from malignant melanoma
• Pt.6. Europe
• Psychological training for health-care professionals in oncology: a way to improve communication skills
• Improving communication with cancer patients: a challenge for physicians
• The relationship with the cancer patient
• Straight talking about cancer: duty or danger?
• Cancer and truth-telling in Greece: historical, statistical, and clinical data.

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Contributors:

Surbone, Antonella

Zwitter, Matjaz̆

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences; v. 809

Subjects:

Cancer — Patients — Congresses

Physician and patient — Congresses

Cancer — Psychological aspects — Congresses

Cancer — Patients

Cancer

Physician and patient

Cancer — Psychological aspects

Genres:

Conference papers and proceedings

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xii, 540 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

Q11 .N47 v.809

ISBNs:

0897669851 (cloth, alk. paper)
089766986X (pbk., alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

96029490

OCLC Numbers:

36045704