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Volume 349:1780-1781 October 30, 2003 Number 18
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Seeds of Mortality: The Public and Private Worlds of Cancer

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By Stewart Justman. 220 pp. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, 2003. $24.95. ISBN 1-56663-498-9.

In Seeds of Mortality, Justman cleverly interweaves his own experience as a patient with cancer with reflections on works of literature, the visual arts, and philosophy to create an insightful commentary on how cancer is viewed by American society. This is not the typical pathography that has become increasingly common in bookstores, nor is it an academic thesis, despite Justman's background in academic English literature. Rather, it is a critique of how cancer and patients with cancer are viewed by the medical profession, by the rhetoricians of the cancer self-help movement, and by American society. In his critique, Justman draws . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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