Being Patient

Na’ama Carlin is an award-winning educator and a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of New South Wales.Louise Chappell is a Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, where she researches gender justice in relation to politics, policy and law.Siobhan O’Sullivan was an Associate Professor of Social Policy and Research at the University of New South Wales, where she worked on inequality, policy and animal rights.

‘Deeply humane and quietly transformative’ – Professor Ophira Ginsburg, Chair of the Lancet Commission on Women, Power and Cancer'You don’t need to be a goody two-shoes if you’re receiving cancer care. In fact, as this uniquely insightful book will tell you, among many other things, it sometimes helps if you aren’t.’ – Norman Swan