Inside/Outside : A Physician's Journey with Breast Cancer /

To doctors, cancer means cells growing out of control; to patients, cancer means a life spinning out of control. Janet R. Gilsdorf, who writes with quiet but devastating honesty about her experience with breast cancer, offers an eye-opening glimpse, through her unique dual perspective as physician a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gilsdorf, Janet R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Gilsdorf, Janet R.
Gilsdorf, Janet R
Gilsdorf, Janet R. > Health.
Physicians.
Pediatricians.
Health.
Breast > Cancer > Patients.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Cancer.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
physicians.
patients.
Femmes medecins.
Patients.
Medecins > États-Unis > Biographies.
Pediatres > États-Unis > Biographies.
Sein > Cancer > Patients > États-Unis > Biographies.
Physicians, Women
Patients
Breast Neoplasms
Women physicians.
Physicians > United States > Biography.
Pediatricians > United States > Biography.
Breast > Cancer > Patients > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Recits personnels.
Personal narratives.
collective biographies.
Biography
Autobiography
Personal Narrative
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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