MARC Record from Western Washington University

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050 00 $aRC265.6.B76$bB76 2001
100 1 $aBrown, Rebecca,$d1956-
245 10 $aExcerpts from a family medical dictionary /$cRebecca Brown.
260 $aMadison, Wisc. :$bThe University of Wisconsin Press,$c2001.
300 $a113 p. ;$c28 cm.
520 1 $a"Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary is an intimate, exquisite, and true account of what it is to help a parent die. After her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, former home care worker and writer Rebecca Brown cared for her mother during the last six months of her life. This spare, unsentimental book comes out of that experience. In short chapters headed by definitions of medical terms, she confronts anemia, chemotherapy, metastasis, cremation. Brown's is a poignant and unflinching story of how one family coped with loss and learned about the longevity of love."--BOOK JACKET
505 00 $tAnemia --$tTwilight sleep --$tMetastasis --$tIncompetence --$tTremor --$tChemotherapy --$tResistance --$tBaldness --$tVomit --$tHydrotherapy --$tHypnophobia --$tMorphine --$tHallucination --$tIllusion --$tUnction --$tCremation --$tRemains.
600 10 $aBrown, Barbara Ann Wildman,$d1928-1997$xHealth.
650 0 $aCancer$xPatients$zNew Mexico$vBiography.
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