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Enduring Cancer

2020-07-24 Social Science
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Release : 2020-07-24
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Enduring Cancer by : Dwaipayan Banerjee

Download or read book Enduring Cancer written by Dwaipayan Banerjee. This book was released on 2020-07-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Enduring Cancer Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as patients and families negotiate an overextended health system unequipped to respond to the disease. Owing to long wait times, most urban poor cancer patients do not receive a diagnosis until it is too late to treat the disease effectively. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the city's largest cancer care NGO and at India's premier public health hospital, Banerjee describes how, for these patients, a cancer diagnosis is often the latest and most serious in a long series of infrastructural failures. In the wake of these failures, Banerjee tracks how the disease then distributes itself across networks of social relations, testing these networks for strength and vulnerability. Banerjee demonstrates how living with and alongside cancer is to be newly awakened to the fragility of social ties, some already made brittle by past histories, and others that are retested for their capacity to support.

Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer

2012-04-30 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2012-04-30
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer by : Susan Gubar

Download or read book Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer written by Susan Gubar. This book was released on 2012-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2012 New York Times Book Review Notable Book "Staggering, searing…Ms. Gubar deserves the highest admiration for her bravery and honesty." —New York Times Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2008, Susan Gubar underwent radical debulking surgery, an attempt to excise the cancer by removing part or all of many organs in the lower abdomen. Her memoir mines the deepest levels of anguish and devotion as she struggles to come to terms with her body’s betrayal and the frightful protocols of contemporary medicine. She finds solace in the abiding love of her husband, children, and friends while she searches for understanding in works of literature, visual art, and the testimonies of others who suffer with various forms of cancer. Ovarian cancer remains an incurable disease for most of those diagnosed, even those lucky enough to find caring and skilled physicians. Memoir of a Debulked Woman is both a polemic against the ineffectual and injurious medical responses to which thousands of women are subjected and a meditation on the gifts of companionship, art, and literature that sustain people in need.

Enduring Cancer

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Book Synopsis Enduring Cancer by : Umanath Nayak

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Reading and Writing Cancer: How Words Heal

2016-05-17 Health & Fitness
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Release : 2016-05-17
Genre : Health & Fitness
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Book Synopsis Reading and Writing Cancer: How Words Heal by : Susan Gubar

Download or read book Reading and Writing Cancer: How Words Heal written by Susan Gubar. This book was released on 2016-05-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important addition to the literature of cancer by an award-winning scholar and memoirist. Elaborating upon her “Living with Cancer” column in the New York Times, Susan Gubar helps patients, caregivers, and the specialists who seek to serve them. In a book both enlightening and practical, she describes how the activities of reading and writing can right some of cancer’s wrongs. To stimulate the writing process, she proposes specific exercises, prompts, and models. In discussions of the diary of Fanny Burney, the stories of Leo Tolstoy and Alice Munro, numerous memoirs, novels, paintings, photographs, and blogs, Gubar shows how readers can learn from art that deepens our comprehension of what it means to live or die with the disease. From a writer whose own memoir, Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer, was described by the New York Times Book Review as “moving and instructive…and incredibly brave,” this volume opens a path to healing.

Enduring Cancer

2020
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Download or read book Enduring Cancer written by . This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as they negotiate an over-extended health system unequipped to respond to the disease.

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