Better Cancer Care A Systemic Approach to Practice

by Forbat, Liz; Hubbard, Gill; Kearney, Nora

• ISBN13: 9781906716097
• ISBN10: 1906716099
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-17
• Publisher: Dunedin Academic Press

Summary

In Better Cancer Care: A Systemic Approach to Practice, the authors reposition the thinking, practice, and policy about cancer. They suggest that the illness and its impact are best understood in the wider context of people's whole lives, and that treatment should move away from a purely disease and individualistic understanding. Based on their findings from the largest study of its kind, the authors describe the experiences of people who have recently been diagnosed with cancer. At its core, this book proposes just one message: the experience of cancer affects not just individuals. Though the disease resides in individuals, its effects are felt across far-reaching contexts and multiple relationships. Taking a systemic approach to cancer care means recognizing the need to understand the entire context in which people experience and make sense of their illness, particularly their interconnectedness and interrelationships with others. This means broadening out from a patient-centered app

Author Biography

The authors are all on the staff of the Cancer Care Research Centre at the University of Stirling.