Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death
Norman Straker
ISBN: | 9780765709660 |
Publisher: | Jason Aronson, Inc. |
Published: | 27 December, 2012 |
Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death
Norman Straker
In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment, Dr. Norman Straker proposes that 'death anxiety' is responsible for the American society's failure to address costly futile care at the end of life; more specifically, doctors default on the appropriate prescription of palliative care because of this anxiety. This leads to unnecessary suffering for terminally-ill patients and their families and significant distress for physicians. To address these challenges in th
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