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Dec 26, 2023 · Whether you’re looking for someone to tell you the cold hard facts, or read a story to lift your spirits, it’s out there. Here 6 remarkable cancer memoirs, each different in tone and story, and each uniquely able to teach, comfort and guide.
As these memoirs suggest, individually and together, there’s no way to eliminate the risk of cancer and or be spared from grief. In addition, they call into question the popular notions that grief proceeds in simple, sequential stages.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2011 history of cancer was a book I first read just after it came out, when a relative of mine was struggling with the disease.
- Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air. When Paul Kalanithi was a young man, he contemplated a literary life, before turning toward neurosurgery, where, he believed, he could do something even deeper: understand the nature of thought.
- Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. All doctors deal with death, but young physicians starting out during the pandemic experienced death in numbers that were traumatizing.
- Pauline W. Chen, Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality. This book was recommended by Rob’s daughter, Bobbi Meyer, who was starting medical school as the pandemic took hold.
Jan 14, 2019 · A cancer diagnosis can shake you to your core and affect every aspect of your life. It can also leave you feeling overwhelmed with emotion and at a loss for words. During this complex and difficult journey, many patients say that they find solace and strength in documenting their experiences.
I only saw glimpses of what it was in the news and in my health textbook. In some way, I thought I was immune to getting cancer, for my family to develop cancer, or to even see the first person in my immediate family die from it. Death was also a term I was very unfamiliar with.
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Cancer Memoirs as Narrative Strategy: Are Our Stories as Valuable as Our Breasts. Nashwa Lina Khan. This paper aims to investigate the ways narrative strategy can act to dismantle predominant views about breast cancer.
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Whether it’s writing a memoir, engaging in expressive or free writing, or simply jotting down notes or keeping a journal related to one’s arduous cancer journey, Gubar highlights the power and benefit of engaging with illness on the page.
