The first cell and the human costs of pursuing cancer to the last
A world-class oncologist delivers a devastating and deeply personal examination of cancer, offering a searing account of how both medicine and society (mis) treats cancer, how people can do better, and why they must.
| Main Author: | Raza, Azra (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2019
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : cancer and its discontents
- Introduction : from last to first
- Omar : the nobleness of life is to do thus
- Per : sand piles and cancer
- Lady N : a loaded gun
- Kitty C : what wound did ever heal but by degrees?
- JC : one touch of nature makes the whole world kin
- Andrew : was honesty a choice?
- Harvey : death stared him in the face, and he stared right back
- Aftermath : give sorrow words
- Epilogue : the dawn has already arrived.