1999
DOI: 10.1080/13648470.1999.9964595
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Soft truth: Ethics and cancer in Northeast Thailand

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“…Questions of disclosure prompt inquiry about what constitutes hope-e.g., does knowing that you have cancer interfere with the will to survive? Likewise, ethical questions emerge over the rights of the patient to know their own test results (DelVecchio Good 1996, Gordon & Paci 1997, Bennett 1999, Elwyn Fetters et al 2002, Markovic et al 2004. Ethnographic details of physician/patient conversations show that health professionals can, at times, be indifferent to or do not recognize symptoms of cancer (Balshem 1993, McMullin 2008, Mulemi 2010, Sand Anderson et al 2014.…”
Section: Technology and Hopementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Questions of disclosure prompt inquiry about what constitutes hope-e.g., does knowing that you have cancer interfere with the will to survive? Likewise, ethical questions emerge over the rights of the patient to know their own test results (DelVecchio Good 1996, Gordon & Paci 1997, Bennett 1999, Elwyn Fetters et al 2002, Markovic et al 2004. Ethnographic details of physician/patient conversations show that health professionals can, at times, be indifferent to or do not recognize symptoms of cancer (Balshem 1993, McMullin 2008, Mulemi 2010, Sand Anderson et al 2014.…”
Section: Technology and Hopementioning
confidence: 99%
“…As Banerjee (2020: 42-48) describes in India, patients knowingly collude with non-disclosure to limit distress to others and to minimise stigma and isolation of one's self or family members. This chosen pathway of 'soft truth' (Bennett 1999) was aimed at containing the suffering inherent in diagnosis and prognosis. In Senegal, revelation and concealment therefore both constitute practices of care, directed at reducing suffering, maintaining quality of life, and providing expressed compassionate care in the absence of biomedical interventions, adequate palliative drugs and formal systems of institutional support.…”
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