{"id":6334,"date":"2014-06-26T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=6334"},"modified":"2014-06-26T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T16:00:13","slug":"ethicists-confront-cancer-when-the-professional-becomes-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/uctv\/ethicists-confront-cancer-when-the-professional-becomes-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethicists Confront Cancer: When the Professional Becomes Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/25957\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/25957.jpg\" alt=\"25957\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6335\" \/><\/a>In 2006, when Rebecca Dresser was diagnosed with oral cancer, her life was thrown off-balance.<\/p>\n<p>As a professor of law and biomedical ethics, she had been teaching and writing for years about the complex ethical, moral, and medical challenges of dealing with life-threatening diseases such as cancer. Yet she found herself personally unprepared for the experience.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Dresser, author of &#8220;Malignant: Medical Ethicists Confront Cancer,&#8221; describes her own bout with cancer and how it changed her views about medical ethics. This is the last of The &#8220;Exploring Ethics&#8221; public lecture series of 2014 focusing on cancer, as seen through the lens of Siddhartha Mukherjee&#8217;s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, &#8220;The Emperor of All Maladies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch Rebecca Dresser in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/25957\">Ethicists Confront Cancer: When the Professional Becomes Personal<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Explore more programs from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/cancer-ethics\/\">Emperor of All Maladies: Moving Forward Against Cancer<\/a> series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, when Rebecca Dresser was diagnosed with oral cancer, her life was thrown off-balance. As a professor of law and biomedical ethics, she had been teaching and writing for years about the complex ethical, moral, and medical challenges of dealing with life-threatening diseases such as cancer. Yet she found herself personally unprepared for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}