Excerpts from a family medical dictionary
By: Rebecca Brown.
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Madison, Wisc
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: Brown, Barbara Ann Wildman, -- 1928-1997 -- Health; Cancer -- Patients -- New Mexico -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary is an intimate, exquisite, and true account of what it is to help a parent die. After her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, former home care worker and writer Rebecca Brown cared for her mother during the last six months of her life. This spare, unsentimental book comes out of that experience. In short chapters headed by definitions of medical terms, she confronts anemia, chemotherapy, metastasis, cremation. Brown's is a poignant and unflinching story of how one family coped with loss and learned about the longevity of love."--BOOK JACKET
Table of contents: title: Anemia --; title: Twilight sleep --; title: Metastasis --; title: Incompetence --; title: Tremor --; title: Chemotherapy --; title: Resistance --; title: Baldness --; title: Vomit --; title: Hydrotherapy --; title: Hypnophobia --; title: Morphine --; title: Hallucination --; title: Illusion --; title: Unction --; title: Cremation --; title: Remains.