| Popis: |
Since the 1960s, healthcare treatments, diagnostic procedures, and other interventions have become more effective and hope-filled with each new medical discovery, technological advancement, and research breakthrough. At the same time, the healthcare delivery has become a more complex, perplexing, and dilemmatic undertaking due to rising healthcare costs, shifting cultural beliefs (e.g., emphasis on individualism, freedom of choice, self-determination), disparities in access to treatments, expanded legal and regulatory oversight as well as litigation, higher expectations for what medicine can accomplish, and increased life expectancy that can be accompanied by protracted debility and dependence. Due to these and other factors, there is a growing need for both professional and family caregivers to consider the ethics of cancer care. |
