Thinking Through Breast Cancer
A Philosophical Exploration of Diagnosis, Treatment, and Survival
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 31 May 2018
- ISBN 9780190637033
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 145x211x25 mm
- Weight 363 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Thinking Through Breast Cancer is a philosophical analysis of breast cancer inspired by the author's journey as a breast cancer patient. It sets out to show the relevancy of philosophical thinking in medicine today and shares advice about how to navigate the uncertainty of breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survival.
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Anyone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer or knows someone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer recognizes that cancer raises a host of questions concerning its nature and how we treat it. Such questions frame the difficult decisions that patients must make about their treatment and care.
Thinking Through Breast Cancer is a philosophical investigation of how breast cancer is described, explained, evaluated, and socialized in medicine. Written by a breast cancer survivor, the book interweaves personal experience with a systematic breakdown of key and highly pertinent philosophical concepts, and brings to light insights that emerge in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, and bioethics. Further, it is an investigation of the ethical implications of understanding breast cancer. Cutter seamlessly combines clinical information with philosophical analysis and makes recommendations as to how we can navigate the complex and, at times, uncertain terrain of breast cancer knowledge and care. In this way, the book is not simply a survey of what we know about breast cancer, but a personal search for guidance about navigating the complex, confusing, and frightening terrain of breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survival.
Cutter's book is an excellent example of how philosophy can assist in the personalization of medicine, which has become impersonal and commercial in its delivery of clinical care. What makes her book so persuasive is that she exhibits full personhood both as patient and as agent. As patient, she recounts the impact not only of breast cancer but also of its treatment on her personal life... Cutter's book should be read not just by philosophers of medicine, but also by patients and health care professionals and administrators as well as policymakers.
Table of Contents:
I. Introduction
II. How is Breast Cancer Described?
III. How is Breast Cancer Explained?
IV.How is Breast Cancer Evaluated?
V. How is Breast Cancer a Social Phenomenon?
VI. What is the Relation among the Descriptive, Explanatory, Evaluative, and Social Dimensions of Breast Cancer?
VII. What Are the Ethical Implications of How Medicine Understands Breast Cancer?
VIII. Extended Musings
Glossary of Medical Terms
Glossary of Philosophical Terms
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