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This volume contains selected contributions from individuals who attended the Sec ond International Conference of the International Council for Global Health Progress (ICGHP) held at UNESCO in Paris, France, on January 15-17, 1996. This conference brought together experts in many disciplines that deal with the devastating diseases of cancer and AIDS with a focus on the concerns for quality of life. The ICGHP fosters mul ticultural and, multidisciplinary approaches to global health problems to help influence governments and other international health organizations to emphasize prevention and care of diseases and to understand their scientific, social, and cultural features. The Coun cil encourages the interchange of information on health problems and policy and supports educational funding for the public at large. Its objective is to effect diseases-free lives in the world community. Participants of the conference included scientists, sociologists, government leaders, physicians, health care providers, epidemiologists, religious leaders, company officials, ethicists, and philosophers. They examined and discussed the many variables involved in quality of life for people affected with cancer and with AIDS. The volume's text begins with introductory comments by officials attending the JCGHP conference. Subsequently, a chapter is dedicated to one aspect of quality of life, be it definition, scientific research, evolution, cultural changes, ethics, measurements, or other issues dealing with health care and treatment survival. The second part of the volume includes commentaries dealing with fi ve aspects of quality of life which merit consideration.
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Cancer, AIDS, and Quality of Life
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Commentaries
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Quality of Life: Who Is Responsible?
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Quality of Life: Who Defines It?
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Quality of Life at the End Stages of Life
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Editors and Affiliations
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Book Title: Cancer, AIDS, and Quality of Life
Editors: Jay A. Levy, Claude Jasmin, Gabriel Bez
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9570-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45517-9Published: 30 April 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-9572-1Published: 25 April 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-9570-7Published: 29 June 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 198
Topics: Infectious Diseases, Oncology, Psychiatry