Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich  | Farrar Straus Giroux

0원  | 19911101  | 9780374511999

Cancer Ward - a largely autobiographical account of a group of people who pass through the cancer wing of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death - was hailed by Time as 'a literary event of the first magnitude' when i...

Lowy, Ilana  | Harvard

144,900원  | 19970101  | 9780674068094

In 1985 the media announced a new therapy for cancer. It was expensive, labor-intensive, and toxic--but, they said, it worked. How it worked is the story Ilana Lö wy tells in < I>

Julie Livingston  | Duke University Press

162,140원  | 20121212  | 9780822353270

Focused on Botswana's only dedicated oncology ward, Improvising Medicine renders the experiences of patients, their relatives, and clinical staff during a cancer epidemic.

Julie Livingston  | Duke University Press

45,410원  | 20120829  | 9780822353423

In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana's only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone. This affecting ethnography follows patients, their relatives, and ward staff as a cancer epidemic emerged in Botswana.