The New Cancer Survivors

Living with Grace, Fighting with Spirit
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6267-0
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Surviving with cancer, Natalie Davis Spingarn tells us, means seeing yourself differently and recognizing that others may see you differently. It means worrying more about work and money. It means facing your mortality. It means dealing with the medical system by learning how to be a good consumer of health services—including making choices among different doctors, medical centers, and insurance plans.

Diagnosed with cancer in the early 1970s and now an independent writer specializing in health and social policy issues (particularly for the Washington Post), Spingarn uses her experiences as the basis for describing and critiquing what experts say about the emotional, physical, family, and practical issues involved. She helps others deal with such issues by relating her own experiences, good and bad, and offering practical encouragement to readers in similar situations.

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 author shines a bright light on the cancer experience, providing good reason to be hopeful as well as insight into how to respond when things do not go so well. Because she has suffered recurrences, she can compare treatment in the seventies (week-long hospital stays, for example, and extensive surgery and chemotherapy) with treatment in the nineties ("drive-through" precision surgery, genetic testing, the incorporation of some "complementary" therapies into mainstream medicine) and weigh the differences. The New Cancer Survivors digs deep for the truth and serves it up with humor and attitude—offering a wealth of information, comfort, and inspiration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spingarn, Natalie Davis

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Fitness, Freizeitsport, Gesundheitssport Überlebenstechniken für die Wildnis (Survival)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Chapter 1. Hanging In There
Chapter 2. The Bad News
Chapter 3. Talking And Hoping
Chapter 4. Being Sick: The Short Run
Chapter 5. A New Subculture: The New Survivors
Chapter 6. Tools and Crutches
Chapter 7. Complementary and Alternative Therapies
Chapter 8. Significant Others: A Part Of The Main
Chapter 9. The Media And The Message: Cancer As Metaphor
Chapter 10. Work: The Passion Of Labor
Chapter 11. Money
Chapter 12. The Big Picture: A Search For Meaning
Appendix: The Cancer Survivors' Bill of Rights
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Spingarn, Natalie Davis
Natalie Davis Spingarn is a prize-winning writer on health care and social policy for the Washington Post and other publications and a long-time leader in the cancer survivorship movement. Her other books include To Save Your Life and Heartbeat: The Politics of Health Research.