ISBN: 9781566391924 - a complex sorrow: reflections on cancer and an abbreviated life (16 risultati)

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Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. F. No defects noted, essentially as new. From the back wrap: "In 1988, Marianne Paget published The Unity of Mistakes: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Medical Work (Temple) in which she argued that error is an intrinsic feature of medicine -- an experimental and uncertain activity. Her subsequent research focused on medical negligence and on miscommunication and silence as a cause and product of error in medicine. While pursuing this research, she found out that she was an example of it. Chronic back pain that had been misdiagnosed as muscle spasms turned out to be a symptom of a rare and fatal cancer that claimed her life in 1989. This collection of her personal and professional writings on the phenomenon of error in medicine chronicles a young scholar's courageous struggle to make sense of a tragic coincidence." And from Joan Cassell, author of Expected Miracles: "Paget's book is stunning. It's a tribute to the invulnerable human spirit. The woman burned like a flame; obviously she died well, because she lived well; she was loved because she was loving. The book is tremendously sad, but it isn't depressing; somehow, one is left with a sense of human possibility.".…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The last work of a scholar whose life mirrored her work.

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