Stripped
Subtitle: at the intersection of cancer, culture, and Christ
By: Heather King
Publisher: Loyola Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780829442625
Subjects: Catholics; Cancer; Religious aspects; Patients; Religious life; Health; Breast; Catholic Church; Biography
Description: "A diagnosed tumor forced Heather King to this crisis of mortality, to live at the crossroads of uncertainty, belief, fear, culture, and modern medicine ... Stripped is a heartfelt expression of profound Catholic faith in the face of a cancer diagnosis. It chronicles King's informed decision not to blindly declare 'war on her cancer' but to carefully examine the medical evidence available and to bring God into her decision making."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223).
Table of contents: title: Mercy General; title: Spiritus contra spiritum; title: The vulture's wing; title: Dr. Ricketts; title: Moral loneliness; title: The garden at Gethsemane; title: Before I depart and am no more; title: Church and state; title: Pilgrim feet; title: Wheel of suffering; title: Liminal space; title: The lady with the ash-blonde wig; title: The anointing of the sick; title: Under the knife; title: Fool for Christ; title: St. Andrew's Abbey; title: Forty days and forty nights; title: The temptation to be relevant; title: The thin line between passion and pathology; title: The seed is in darkness; title: Strong meat; title: Hiroshima notes; title: Lay your sleeping head, my love; title: Desert hot springs; title: No turning back; title: Good-bye to all that; title: Epilogue.