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The Measure of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness Paperback - 1998 - 1st Edition
by Groopman, Jerome
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Dr. Jerome Groopman offers readers a compelling look at what is to be learned when life itself can no longer be taken for granted. National radio telephone tour.
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- Title The Measure of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness
- Author Groopman, Jerome
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Date 1998
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 059867
- ISBN 9780140269727 / 014026972X
- Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.78 x 5.14 x 0.51 in (19.76 x 13.06 x 1.30 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97011693
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.175
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Summary
These stories are diverse--from Kirk, an aggressive venture capitalist determined to play the odds with controversial chemotherapy treatments; to Elizabeth, an imperious dowager humbled by a rare blood disease; to Elliott, who triumphs over leukemia and creates for himself a definition of success--but each, in the words of Maggie Scarf, "transmute the misery of terrible suffering into a marvelous celebration of the sweetness of human life." Far from medical case studies, these are spiritual journeys of questioning and self-awareness, embarked on by the physician as well as the patient.