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A History of Lung CancerThe Management of Stigma: Lung Cancer and Charity, circa 1990 to 2000

A History of Lung Cancer: The Management of Stigma: Lung Cancer and Charity, circa 1990 to 2000 [The association with smoking made lung cancer different from other cancers which may have confronted doctors with similar clinical challenges. Lung cancer increasingly came to be perceived as a disease that could not be treated and had to be prevented by persuading people not to take up smoking. This meant that lung cancer sufferers who had never smoked (10 to 15 percent) found themselves associated with a habit which used to be normal but was increasingly seen as a sign of personal weakness and a danger to others.1 This made lung cancer comparable to tuberculosis and venereal disease, the traditional targets of public health campaigns. The association with smoking led to a common assumption that patients brought the illness upon themselves. But was it ethically acceptable to hold it against smokers that they had conducted a disease that was associated with the habit? How was smoking different from other behaviours which caused illness? In this chapter I will discuss the question of stigma in relation to lung cancer. I will look at the history of the Roy Castle Foundation, a charity dedicated to lung cancer, as a case study of ways of managing such stigma and its consequences. I will also discuss, in this context, some recent developments in lung cancer screening.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A History of Lung CancerThe Management of Stigma: Lung Cancer and Charity, circa 1990 to 2000

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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
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978-1-349-54187-4
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147 –170
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10.1057/9781137384232_7
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Abstract

[The association with smoking made lung cancer different from other cancers which may have confronted doctors with similar clinical challenges. Lung cancer increasingly came to be perceived as a disease that could not be treated and had to be prevented by persuading people not to take up smoking. This meant that lung cancer sufferers who had never smoked (10 to 15 percent) found themselves associated with a habit which used to be normal but was increasingly seen as a sign of personal weakness and a danger to others.1 This made lung cancer comparable to tuberculosis and venereal disease, the traditional targets of public health campaigns. The association with smoking led to a common assumption that patients brought the illness upon themselves. But was it ethically acceptable to hold it against smokers that they had conducted a disease that was associated with the habit? How was smoking different from other behaviours which caused illness? In this chapter I will discuss the question of stigma in relation to lung cancer. I will look at the history of the Roy Castle Foundation, a charity dedicated to lung cancer, as a case study of ways of managing such stigma and its consequences. I will also discuss, in this context, some recent developments in lung cancer screening.]

Published: Nov 14, 2015

Keywords: Lung Cancer; Lung Cancer Patient; Lung Cancer Screening; Football Club; Compute Tomography Screening

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