Title: Beyond Words
            
                Literature and Medicine
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.
Subjects: Chronic diseases, Medicine in literature, Critically ill, Catastrophic Illness, Psychology, Critical Illness, Personal Narratives, Attitude to Health, Chronic Disease, Sick, Patients' writings, History and criticism, Diseases and literature, Written communication, Psychological aspects, Personality and creative ability, Health attitudes