Originally published with transcript at https://www.nickfabbri.com/bloom/paulmonkoncancer
In this podcast, Nick and Paul discuss:
Paul's cancer journey and the odds of his survival
The development of immunotherapy and other revolutionary cancer treatments
Cancer research and the medical establishment
The examples and books of Jimmy Stynes, Lance Armstrong, and Christopher Hitchens
Reflections on mortality, death, and existential meaning and purpose
The impact of Paul’s cancer journey on his relationships
The 2016 International Cancer Conference in Brazil, and conversations with Dr. David Speakman, Chief Medical Officer of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Reframing one’s priorities after living with cancer
Dr Paul Monk is a poet, polymath and highly regarded Australian public intellectual. He has written an extraordinary range of books, from Sonnets to a Promiscuous Beauty (which resides in former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s library), to reflective essays on the riches of Western civilization in The West in a Nutshell, to a prescient 2005 treatise on the rise of China in Thunder from the Silent Zone: Rethinking China.
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