[Evolutions of ethics in medicine: from one emancipation to another].

The main items and changes of deontology in medicine come from physicians or attitudes in the society: the first practitionners (medical confidentiality), then patients’ emancipation (autonomy, fair information), finally evidence-based medicine.

[Cancer and literature].

A number of literary books relate the course of a cancer. These are testimonies on a personnal tumour or on the tumour of a proxy. They give a useful view of the disease by lay authors, complementary of the view of the physicians.