Wolfe’s opposed assisted suicide, and wrote extensively on the subject. However, when her father was diagnosed with cancer and began a slow decline she had to rethink how she felt about assisted suicide. It was
The palliative team may consist of the doctors, nurses, councilors, social workers, dieticians, clergy, therapist and trained volunteers. “Palliative care addresses the emotional, physical, practical, and spiritual issues of cancer” (Arthur Unknown, 2010). However, considering that the breast cancer has metastasized to the lungs, and no further treatment options are viable, a hospice evaluation appears to be warranted. Hospice, like palliative care includes the same interdisciplinary team members. “Hospice care is a form of palliative care that is given to a person when cancer therapies are no longer controlling the disease.
The problem will be tackled in a comprehensive manner and it will address issues touching on cancer and its effects on the psychological well-being of the patient. Among the major things to be covered in this paper is an overview of cancer (what cancer means, the causes of cancer, and the different types of cancers), and the psychological impact of cancer on the patients. More emphasis will be on the psychological impact of cancer on the patients. Cancer Cancer is a type of disease that is characterized mainly by the out of control cell growth hence; it is the wild growth of unusual cells in the body. The cells (cancerous) that are associated with cancer are
to secure one thing, his sense of personal dignity" (1021). As cancer, she maintains her composure and begins analyzing what the doctor is saying. Vivian is consumed with assessment and investigation, which makes her a worry really hard. Her extreme need for knowledge, which can be perceived as her tragic flaw, causes her to be unaware to the reality of her diagnosis: she is going to die. At the end of Vivian and Dr. Kelekian’s conversation Vivian decides that she will take the “full dose” of chemotherapy for the following eight months.
“AIDS and its Metaphors” is an essay written by Susan Sontag. She wrote this essay because of the metaphors use toward cancer and AIDS. In the essay I believe she attempts to explain her point of view towards the metaphors of the illnesses cancer and AIDS, and how
By examining previous information on studies about multiple sclerosis, the author then continued to use the information as building blocks for his research and why it would be important to further study the areas he is inquiring about. The author uses a reference to establish the amount of people living with this phenomenon and then continues to cite information on how the variety of the disease affects different people saying why and how the experiment would be important. An overwhelming majority of the author’s references were older than five years (Approximately 22 of 23). The author did inform the reader about the limitations of the study by stating “candidates for this study were recruited by open recruitment to respect the free will of patients in participating,” while also informing how future studies could be done to help remedy these practices. Overall the study did not use references to as a central point since it was more of a background on how the author would continue to move forward and the literature review of the article was rather
The events detailed in this book, And The Band Plays On, serves as a paradigm for improving the lives of HIV infected individuals, primarily by outlining the many mistakes that were made. It is clearly delineated in the book how the significance of unity and having a common goal is necessary to overcome an epidemic. It shows the monstrosity created when self-interest, lack of education and ignorance replaces common interest, substantial knowledge, and logic. The book demonstrates the difference that social work might have played and did play when and if educated properly. The utilization of social work could have offset the cold and insensitive manner that HIV/ AIDS patients received.
She wrote it during her own fight against breast cancer and questioned the statement “blame the victim”, which is commonly used to described diseases and those who suffer from them. Drawing the similarities between general views on cancer and tuberculosis, she showed that both diseases have become associated with personal features. In particular she demonstrated how the metaphors and terms used to describe both illnesses lead to the repressed passion and the physical disease itself. Sontag was also trying to underline the fact that human being's character does not cause the disease and is not responsible for the suffering. [3] The authoress reviews images of tuberculosis, cancer, schizophrenia and AIDS in literature, film, medicine, psychoanalysis, politics and sociology... She points out accusatory ton of such metaphors, which supposedly aims at developing will to fight with disease.
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After a demand Terri's husband won for a malpractice sue from one of the many surgical procedure she had to face in their trials to stimulate her brain and try to recover some function, a whole storm of family discrepancies, legal issues in courts and also the hand of politicians covered their lives. After 8 years of hardly trying to do everything for Terri's recovery with no signs of hope or just the minimum improvement , her husband ask to remove the Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG), which is a “ flexible tube placed through the abdominal wall and into the stomach that allows nutrition, fluids and/or medications to be put directly into the stomach” 2 . This PEG tube was maintaining Terri alive preventing malnutrition and dehydration. According to Terri's husband, she would not want to live in that condition and this was expressed in court after court. In an article published in 2005 , Dr. Joseph J. Fins stated that “this was a right-to-die case”.