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  1. Diary of a Detour
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    Diary of a Detour is film scholar and author Lesley Stern's memoir of living with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She chronicles the fears and daily experience of coming to grips with an incurable form of cancer by describing the dramas and delving... more

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    Diary of a Detour is film scholar and author Lesley Stern's memoir of living with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She chronicles the fears and daily experience of coming to grips with an incurable form of cancer by describing the dramas and delving into the science. Stern also nudges cancer off from center stage by turning to alternative obsessions and pleasures. In seductive writing she describes her life in the garden and kitchen, the hospital and the library, and her travels-down the street to her meditation center, across the border to Mexico, and across the world to Australia. Her immediate world is inhabited with books, movies, politics, and medical reports that provoke essayistic reflections. As her environment is shared with friends, chickens, a cat called Elvis, mountain goats, whales, lions, and microbes the book opens onto a larger than human world. Intimate and meditative, engrossing and singular, Diary of a Detour offers new ideas about what it might mean to live and think with cancer, and with chronic illness more broadly

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781478012290
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    Series: Writing Matters!
    Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs; Authors, Australian; Cancer; Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
    Scope: 1 online resource (371 pages)
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)

  2. Among the almond trees
    a Palestinian memoir
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Seagull Books, London

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    Contributor: Muhawi, Ibrahim (ÜbersetzerIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780857428967; 0857428969
    Series: The Arab list
    Subjects: Authors, Palestinian Arab; Authors, Palestinian Arab; Cancer; Cancer ; Patients ; Family relationships; Health; Autobiographies
    Other subjects: Barghūthī, Ḥusayn Jamīl; Barghūthī, Ḥusayn Jamīl; Barghūthī, Ḥusayn Jamīl
    Scope: 139 pages, 24 cm
  3. The snow queen
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Fourth Estate, London

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780007557783; 9780007557677
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Subjects: Brothers; Drug addiction; Cancer
    Scope: 258 p, 22 cm
  4. Bucky F*cking Dent
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

    "A story of the bond between fathers and sons, Yankee fans and the Fenway faithful, which grapples with our urgent need to persevere--and risk everything--in the name of love"-- "Ted Fullilove, aka Mr. Peanut, is not like other Ivy League grads. He... more

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    "A story of the bond between fathers and sons, Yankee fans and the Fenway faithful, which grapples with our urgent need to persevere--and risk everything--in the name of love"-- "Ted Fullilove, aka Mr. Peanut, is not like other Ivy League grads. He shares an apartment with Goldberg, his beloved battery-operated fish, sleeps on a bed littered with yellow legal pads penned with what he hopes will be the next great American novel, and spends the waning malaise-filled days of the Carter administration at Yankee Stadium, waxing poetic while slinging peanuts to pay the rent. When Ted hears the news that his estranged father, Marty, is dying of lung cancer, he immediately moves back into his childhood home, where a whirlwind of revelations ensues. The browbeating absentee father of his youth is living to make up for lost time, but his health dips drastically whenever his beloved Red Sox lose. And so, with help from a crew of neighborhood old-timers and the lovely Mariana--Marty's Nuyorican grief counselor--Ted orchestrates the illusion of a Sox winning streak, enabling Marty and the Red Sox to reverse the Curse of the Bambino and cruise their way to World Series victory. Well, sort of David Duchovny's richly drawn Bucky F&%@ing Dent is a story of the bond between fathers and sons, Yankee fans and the Fenway faithful, and grapples with the urgent need to find our story in an age of irony and artifice. Culminating in that fateful moment in October of '78 when the meek Bucky Dent hit his way into baseball history with the unlikeliest of home runs, this tragicomic novel demonstrates that life truly belongs to the losers--that the long shots are the ones worth betting on. Bucky F&%@ing is a singular tale that brims with the hilarity, poignance, and profound solitude of modern life"--

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780374536800
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Subjects: Fathers and sons; Cancer
    Scope: 302 pages
  5. Fractured borders
    reading women's cancer literature
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Mich.

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    3H 92283
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780472099092; 0472099094; 9780472069095; 0472069098
    Subjects: American literature; Cancer in literature; Cancer; Cancer patients' writings, American; Women and literature; Cancer in women; Autobiography; Frauenliteratur; Krebs <Medizin, Motiv>
    Scope: VII, 301 S.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP

  6. Age of iron
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Penguin Books, UK ; USA ; Canada ; Ireland ; Australia ; India ; New Zealand ; South Africa

    Englisches Seminar der Universität, Bibliothek
    PAF Coet C:12
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780241983935
    Series: Penguin essentials
    Subjects: Cancer
    Scope: 198 Seiten
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    Originally published: 1990

  7. The Zea Mexican diary, 7 Sept 1926 - 7 Sept 1986
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  Univ. of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis.

    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 029913640X
    Series: Wisconsin studies in American autobiography
    Subjects: Authors, Jamaican; Cancer; Authors' spouses
    Other subjects: English literature; Jamaica
    Scope: XI,214 S.
  8. Krankheit in Digitalen Spielen
    Interdisziplinäre Betrachtungen
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin

    Krankheit in digitalen Spielen hat viele Facetten - egal ob psychisch oder somatisch. Ihre Darstellung fußt dabei auf Prozessen, die gesellschaftliches Wissen zu Krankheiten aufgreifen und gemäß der Eigenlogik digitaler Spiele verändern. Ästhetik,... more

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    Krankheit in digitalen Spielen hat viele Facetten - egal ob psychisch oder somatisch. Ihre Darstellung fußt dabei auf Prozessen, die gesellschaftliches Wissen zu Krankheiten aufgreifen und gemäß der Eigenlogik digitaler Spiele verändern. Ästhetik, Narration und Spielmechanik partizipieren so an Kämpfen um Deutungshoheiten zwischen der Tradierung stigmatisierender Krankheitsvorstellungen einerseits und selbstreflexivem Empowerment andererseits. Die Beiträger*innen dieses ersten Sammelbandes zum Thema widmen sich theoretischen, analytischen und praktischen Fragestellungen rund um die Bedeutungsvielfalt von Krankheitskonstruktionen in digitalen Spielen aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive.

     

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  9. Revoir Hélène
    Published: 1986
    Publisher:  Laffont, Paris

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  10. Walking distance
    Published: 1987
    Publisher:  Random House, New York

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0394551478
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: Cancer; Terminally ill; Young women
    Scope: 279 S.
  11. Evening
    Author: Minot, Susan
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Knopf, New York

    A woman dying of cancer relives a weekend with the man of her dreams. For Ann Lord, who subsequently married three times, nothing equalled the passion she felt for her first love, a doctor from the Korean War whom she lost to another woman. more

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    A woman dying of cancer relives a weekend with the man of her dreams. For Ann Lord, who subsequently married three times, nothing equalled the passion she felt for her first love, a doctor from the Korean War whom she lost to another woman.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0375400370
    Edition: 3. print.
    Series: A Borzoi book
    Subjects: Frau; Cancer; Children of cancer patients; Life change events; Memory; Reminiscing; Women
    Scope: 264 S.
  12. Tobacco smoking and nutrition
    influence of nutrition on tobacco-associated health risks ; [papers presented at a conference entitled Tobacco smoking and nutrition, influence of nutrition on tobacco-associated health risks ... held in Lexington, Kentucky on September 14-16, 1992]
    Contributor: Diana, John N. (Hrsg.)
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Diana, John N. (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0897668073; 0897668081
    Series: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; 686
    Subjects: Tobacco use; Smoking; Tobacco; Cancer
    Scope: IX, 366 S, Ill., graph. Darst, 24 cm
  13. Mother in summer
    Author: Hahn, Susan
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Books/Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill.

    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0810151294; 0810151308
    Series: TriQuarterly Books
    Subjects: Cancer; Mothers and daughters; Mothers; Parent and adult child; Terminally ill parents
    Scope: xii, 88 p., 23 cm
  14. Los desiertos del alma
    relato de la muerte de mi madre
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Oceano, México

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Language: Spanish
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9706510974
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Series: Tiempo de México
    Subjects: Literatura moderna mexicana - Novela - Siglo XX; Novela mexicana - Siglo XX; Spanisch; Cancer; Mother-son relationship; Spanish language materials; Spanish language
    Scope: 136 S.
  15. The poison arrow frog
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Scribner, London [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 074320753X
    RVK Categories: HN 9990
    Edition: 1. publ. in Great Britain
    Subjects: Cancer; Dictators
    Scope: 215 S.
  16. Illness as metaphor
    Published: 1988
    Publisher:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0374520739
    RVK Categories: HU 8503
    Edition: 1. paperback ed.
    Subjects: Cancer in literature; Cancer; Tuberculosis in literature; Tuberculosis; Krebs <Medizin>; Tuberkulose <Motiv>; Krebs <Medizin, Motiv>; Geschichte; Literatur; Metapher; Tuberkulose
    Scope: 87 S.
  17. Terms of endearment
    a novel
    Published: 1989
    Publisher:  Simon & Schuster, New York u.a.

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0671682083
    RVK Categories: HU 4436
    Edition: 1. Touchstone ed.
    Series: A Touchstone Book
    Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Man-woman relationships; Cancer
    Scope: 410 S.
  18. Motivation der Bevölkerung zur Krebsvorsorge
    die Aktion "Intensivierte Krebsvorsorge in Baden-Württemberg 1973" ; aus dem Deutschen Krebsforschungszentrum Heidelberg
    Published: 1976
    Publisher:  Kohlhammer, Stuttgart [u.a.]

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    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 3170040839
    RVK Categories: MS 6000 ; XH 3900
    Series: Deutschland <Bundesrepublik> / Bundesminister für Jugend, Familie und Gesundheit: Schriftenreihe des ... . ; 40
    Subjects: Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gutachten; Psychologie; Attitude to Health; Cancer; Cancer; Motivation (Psychology); Motivation; Neoplasms; Questionnaires; Krebs <Medizin>; Motivation; Prävention; Bevölkerung
    Scope: 119 S., Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
  19. In love with daylight
    a memoir of recovery
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Simon & Schuster, New York [u.a.]

    The personal journey of a writer who struggles to overcome his several illnesses, physical and mental. more

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    The personal journey of a writer who struggles to overcome his several illnesses, physical and mental.

     

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  20. "Tell me a riddle"
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Rutgers Univ. Press, New Brunswick, NJ

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    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    ISBN: 081352136X; 0813521378
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Series: Women writers
    Subjects: Cancer; Married people; Older women; Working class
    Other subjects: Olsen, Tillie: Tell me a riddle; Olsen, Tillie (1912-2007)
    Scope: VIII, 310 S.
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    Enth. Texte von und über Tillie Olsen

  21. A whole new life
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Atheneum, New York

    Reynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclaimed and accomplished men of letters - the author of novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, and a memoir. In A Whole New Life, however, he steps from behind that roster of achievements to... more

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    Reynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclaimed and accomplished men of letters - the author of novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, and a memoir. In A Whole New Life, however, he steps from behind that roster of achievements to present us with a more personal story, a narrative as intimate and compelling as any work of the imagination In 1984 a large cancer was discovered in his spinal cord ("The tumor was pencil-thick and gray-colored, ten inches long from my neck-hair downward"). Here, for the first time, Price recounts without self-pity what became a long struggle to withstand and recover from this appalling, if all too common, affliction (one American in three will experience some form of cancer) He charts the first puzzling symptoms; the urgent surgery that fails to remove the growth and the radiation that temporarily arrests it (but hurries his loss of control of his lower body); the occasionally comic trials of rehab; the steady rise of severe pain and reliance on drugs; two further radical surgeries; the sustaining force of a certain religious vision; an eventual discovery of help from biofeedback and hypnosis; and the miraculous return of his powers as a writer in a new, active life

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0689121970
    Subjects: Authors, American; Cancer; Literature, Modern; Neoplasms; Patients; Krebs <Medizin>
    Other subjects: Price, Reynolds <1933->; Price, Reynolds <1933->; Price, Reynolds (1933-2011)
    Scope: IX, 213 S.
  22. Terminal
    Author: Cook, Robin
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Berkley Books, New York

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0425140946
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Series: Berkley novel
    Subjects: Cancer
    Scope: 370 S.
  23. Bang the drum slowly
    Author: Harris, Mark
    Published: 1984
    Publisher:  Univ. of Nebraska Press, Lincoln [u.a.]

    Loyalty and friendship within a baseball team. more

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    Loyalty and friendship within a baseball team.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0803272219
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Edition: 1. Bison books print.
    Series: A Bison book
    Subjects: Baseball players; Cancer; Male friendship; Terminally ill
    Scope: 243 S.
  24. Losing Absalom
    a novel
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Coffee House Press, Minneapolis

    As Absalom Goodman, an African-American, lies dying in a Philadelphia hospital surrounded by his wife and two grown children, he retraces his life. A study of parenthood, the inner city and the American way. more

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    As Absalom Goodman, an African-American, lies dying in a Philadelphia hospital surrounded by his wife and two grown children, he retraces his life. A study of parenthood, the inner city and the American way.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 1566890179
    Subjects: African American families; Cancer; City and town life; Father and child
    Scope: 204 S.
  25. Evening
    Author: Minot, Susan
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Vintage Contemporaries, New York

    Universitätsbibliothek Passau
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0375700269
    Subjects: Frau; Cancer; Children of cancer patients; Life change events; Reminiscing; Women
    Scope: 264 S.