Wrestling With the Angel: A Memoir of My Triumph Over Illness

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Simon and Schuster, 15 ago 1991 - 208 páginas
Journalist Max Lerner writes a stunningly honest account of the feelings and thoughts that marked his battle with two successive cancers and a heart attack.

Journal entries from this extraordinary ordeal show how mind and body interweave in the healing process. "A worthy companion to Anatomy of an Illness." —Kirkus Reviews

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Authors Note
11
Contingency Is King
19
The Locus of the Evil
27
The Torment of Choice
37
The Universe of the Ill
47
Dont Take My Night Away
59
You Have Two Cancers
77
Dont Let Them Do an Abelard on You
95
A Medical Miracleand a Medical Museum
111
Thank God Its Only a Heart Attack
117
The Doctor Within the Patient
137
The Last Voyage
145
Confronting Death Asserting Life
167
Notes
196
Further Reading
205
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Max Lerner was a journalist and educator known for his controversial syndicated column.

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