Professor of Sociology & Director, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, The University of Sydney., University of Sydney
Alex Broom is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney. He is recognised as an international leader in sociology, with a specific interest in health, illness and care.
Paris in spring, Bali in winter. How ‘bucket lists’ help cancer patients handle life and death
May 09, 2024 05:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
In the 2007 film The Bucket List Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play two main characters who respond to their terminal cancer diagnoses by rejecting experimental treatment. Instead, they go on a range of energetic,...
Jun 28, 2023 15:26 pm UTC| Health
Earlier this year, federal health minister Mark Butler announced a new national Lung Cancer Screening Program. The first of its kind for lung cancer, the screening program will open initially to current and former smokers...
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