Dehumanizing the cancer patient

✍ Scribed by Nahum, Alan M.

• Book ID: 102233363
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1982
• Weight: 61 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0148-6403
• DOI: 10.1002/hed.2890040402

✦ Synopsis

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 torment to him.