Inside/outside : a physician's journey with breast cancer
Gilsdorf, Janet R.2006
Books
Main title:
Inside/outside : a physician's journey with breast cancer / by Janet R. Gilsdorf.
Author:
Imprint:
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2006.
Collation:
vii, 237p. : ill. ; 22.9cm.
Notes:
To doctors, cancer means cells growing out of control; to patients, cancer means a life spinning out of control. This book offers a glimpse, through dual perspective as physician and patient, of both sides of the medical divide. It ponders an array of human choices: thinking versus feeling, hanging on versus letting go, and more.
Contents:
The diagnosis -- "Physician heal thyself" -- Egalitarianism bumps against personal needs -- The power of language -- Telling my people -- "Lies, damn lies, and statistics" -- The three hells: surgery, chemotherapy, radiation -- Biology for artists and linguists -- The nodes know -- Interlude. adrift -- Pain and mutilation -- La morte, la vie -- Kill my cancer but don't kill me -- Rapunzel, Rapunzel-- -- Seeing purple seashells and other unexpected things -- Iatrogenesis -- Friends, forever -- And then they burn you -- Reentry and beyond -- Emerging -- It never goes away -- The road to wellness goes through Monterey, California, and Almaty, Kazakhstan -- Restructuring a life..
ISBN:
0472115790 ((hbk) :)
Dewey class:
362.196994092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
20826