Lessons From Joan
Living and Loving with Cancer, a Husband’s Story
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Syracuse University Press
Published:30th Nov '05
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
A book that will benefit everyone, especially those negotiating life-threatening diagnoses; their caregivers, family members and friends; and health care providers and their students. In ""Lessons from Joan"", Eric R. Kingson tells how his late wife's strength, warmth, humor, and love - and those of many people they met along the way - helped extend life and make it worth living. It is about the fear, hope, and intensity of their lives during the thirty-two months that followed Joan's cancer diagnosis and how Joan and her husband and children maintained their family life during this time. It is about some of the funny, moving and courageous things that happened along the way. And it is about what they did to access compassionate, state-of-the-art care, including aggressive interventions that provided hope and improved the quality of Joan's life. ""Lessons from Joan"" is not intended as a ""how-to"" book, but within its pages readers will find lessons and practical advice about how to deal with unexpected life-threatening illnesses.
In the end, it is the dignity, and ultimately the great humanity with which Joan and her family faced her illness that comes through in this remarkable book and [which] enriches us all. - Niki Tsongas, wife of the late Senator Paul Tsongas ""Joan's experience with the health care system has lessons for all of us.... It illustrates the importance of 'the heart' in our health care system - for our patients, family members, health care providers, and our culture."" - Karen Davis, from the Foreword ""Many of us will find ourselves in an unexpected crisis of illness.... Lessons From Joan will be extraordinarily helpful. [This book] is not only engaging and tender but also informative."" - Sidney Winawer, M.D., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, author of Healing Lessons ""Provides both inspiration and insight.... [Kingson offers] many useful ideas on how to deal with terminal cancer."" - Robert L. Kane, M.D., University of Minnesota Chair in Long-term Care and Aging and author of It Shouldn't Be This way: The Failure of Long-term Care
ISBN: 9780815608387
Dimensions: 229mm x 153mm x 16mm
Weight: 345g
209 pages