num_pages: 358
description: When Carolyn Ellis, a graduate student, and Gene Weinstein, her Professor, fell in love, he was experiencing the first stages of emphysema. As he became disabled and immobile, these two partners fought to maintain their love and to live a meaningful life. This memoir is about what it means to be involved, and in love, with someone chronically ill.
language: English
title: Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness
titlecomplete: Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness
genres: Memoir, Sociology
ratings_count: 32
series: Health, Society, and Policy
publisher: Temple University Press