Bodies and barriers : The Lancet Oncology - review

Bodies and barriers : The Lancet Oncology

"Take the preface to Whose Life is it Anyway? which informs us that “the hero's actions are an assertion of those contractual rights [between doctor and patient] viewed in terms of current philosophical arguments which hold that the dual principles of autonomy and contract keeping, conceptually linked, provide the sole moral foundation for clinical practice consistent with the social context in which the practice occurs”. I've read this sentence at least twelve times now, and I'm still no nearer to knowing what it means."

"Presented together, the plays form an intriguing whole, each focussed on a different aspect of medicine and mortality. “We are discussing life and death, and not in the abstract either”, explains Vivian Bearing.

They've done a fine job."