10 audio discs (11 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time
113000
Physical Medium
4 3/4 in.
Description
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CD audio
Note
In container (17 cm.).
Title from container.
Performer
Narrated by Sheherzad Raza Preisler.
Summary
A world-class oncologist delivers a devastating and deeply personal examination of cancer, offering a searing account of how both medicine and society (mis)treats cancer, how people can do better, and why they must.
Contents
Prologue : cancer and its discontents -- Introduction : from last to first -- Omar : the nobleness of life is to do thus -- Per : sand piles and cancer -- Lady N : a loaded gun -- Kitty C : what wound did ever heal but by degrees? -- JC : one touch of nature makes the whole world kin -- Andrew : was honesty a choice? -- Harvey : death stared him in the face, and he stared right back -- Aftermath : give sorrow words -- Epilogue : the dawn has already arrived.