Inside/outside
Subtitle: a physician's journey with cancer
By: by Janet R. Gilsdorf.
Series: Conversations in medicine and society
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780472115792
Subjects: Gilsdorf, Janet R. -- Health.; Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.; Pediatricians -- United States -- Biography.; Physicians -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The diagnosis; title: "Physician heal thyself"; title: Egalitarianism bumps against personal needs; title: The power of language; title: Telling my people; title: "Lies, damn lies, and statistics"; title: The three hells: surgery, chemotherapy, radiation; title: Biology for artists and linguists; title: The nodes know; title: Interlude. adrift; title: Pain and mutilation; title: La morte, la vie; title: Kill my cancer but don't kill me; title: Rapunzel, Rapunzel; title: Seeing purple seashells and other unexpected things; title: Iatrogenesis; title: Friends, forever; title: And then they burn you; title: Reentry and beyond; title: Emerging; title: It never goes away; title: The road to wellness goes through Monterey, California, and Almaty, Kazakhstan; title: Restructuring a life.