Dehumanizing the cancer patient
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Nahum, Alan M.
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Article
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1982
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Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
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Damocles sword. A symbol of anxiety. Damocles, a sycophant OfDionysius, was invited by the tyrant to try the felicity he so much envied. Accepting, he was set down to a sumptuous banquet, but overhead was a sword suspended by a hair. Damocles was afraid to stir and the banquet was a tantalizing torm