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The New Cancer Survivors: Living with Grace, Fighting with Spirit
Natalie Davis Spingarn
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Description for The New Cancer Survivors: Living with Grace, Fighting with Spirit
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801862670
SKU
V9780801862670
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-20
About Natalie Davis Spingarn
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.
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