Wrestling With the Angel: A Memoir of My Triumph Over IllnessSimon 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 |
Índice
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 |
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Wrestling with the Angel: A Memoir of My Triumph Over Illness Max Lerner No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 1990 |
Términos y frases comunes
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