The new cancer survivors : living with grace, fighting with spirit /

"Lively and empathetic, The New Cancer Survivors will appeal to persons with cancer - who, thanks to modern medical science, are "hanging in there with illnesses that once evoked only submission or surrender"--As well as to their families, friends, and caregivers. Throughout, the auth...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Spingarn, Natalie Davis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1999.
Subjects:
Cancer > Popular works.
Cancer > Patients.
Self-help groups.
Neoplasms > psychology
Survivors > psychology
Self-Help Groups
Cancéreux.
Groupes d'entraide.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Cancer.
Self-help groups
Cancer
Cancer > Patients
Popular Work
Popular works
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Hanging In There
  • The Bad News
  • Talking and Hoping
  • Being Sick: The Short Run
  • A New Subculture: The New Survivors
  • Tools and Crutches
  • Complementary and Alternative Therapies
  • Significant Others: A Part of the Main
  • The Media and the Message: Cancer as Metaphor
  • Work: The Passion of Labor
  • Money
  • The Big Picture: A Search for Meaning
  • The Cancer Survivors' Bill of Rights.

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