The cult of individualism fuels the idea that we are invariably - TopicsExpress

The cult of individualism fuels the idea that we are invariably personally responsible for the situation we are in. Cancer is more individualised than most diseases: all that talk of “losing” or “winning” battles. A far wiser approach was summed up by DJ Danny Baker after his own diagnosis. He said he was “just the battlefield, science is doing the fighting and of course the wonderful docs and nurses of the brilliant NHS”. The cancer patient, in other words, was practically a bystander in a collective effort.