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The healing power of books has helped psychologist and author Maggie Mulqueen persist through the darkest nights in her cancer journey. Opinion: As I recover from cancer, the healing words I ...
War metaphors are often used to describe a person's experience with cancer. Those who have died are said to have lost their " battle with cancer ", while the living are described as " fighting cancer ". While the use of metaphors can help physicians explain cancer in a way that is understood by patients, it has been argued that words such as ...
Healing Words: Poetry and Medicine is a sixty-minute documentary ( ISBN 978-0-7936-9468-6) filmed in 2008 primarily at Shands at the University of Florida. The production portrays individuals in personal quest to recover psychologically and physically from illnesses that have dramatically changed their lives. This film validates expressive art ...
Illness as Metaphor is a 1978 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag, in which she challenged the victim-blaming in the language that is often used to describe diseases and the people affected by them. Teasing out the similarities between public perspectives on cancer (the paradigmatic disease of the 20th century before the appearance of AIDS ...
Psycho-oncology is an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of physical, psychological, social, and behavioral aspects of the cancer experience for both patients and caregivers. Also known as psychiatric oncology or psychosocial oncology, researchers and practitioners in the field are concerned with aspects of individuals' experience with ...
OCLC. 909925278. Dewey Decimal. 616.99/424. LC Class. RC280. When Breath Becomes Air is a non-fiction autobiographical book written by American neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi. It is a memoir about his life and battling stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House on January 12, 2016.