Beyond Words
            
                Literature and Medicine
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2013
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780826353245
Description: "Author Kathlyn Conway, a three-time cancer survivor, believes that the triumphalist approach to writing about illness fails to do justice to the shattering experience of disease. By wrestling with the challenge of writing about the reality of serious illness and injury, she argues, writers can offer a truer picture of the complex relationship between body and mind"--Provided by publisher.