Living Under the Sword: Psychosocial Aspects of Recurrent and Progressive Life-Threatening Illness
- Mary Hartshorn, MD, Reviewer
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Groton, NY
mah53@prodigy.net
Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text.
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edited by Austin H. Kutscher and the Editors of the American Institute of Life-Threatening Illness and Loss, 190 pp, $65, ISBN 0-8108-3487-l, Lanham, Md, Scarecrow Press, 2004.
From the chronically suicidal to children with recurrent cancer, Living Under the Sword, as the subtitle indicates, covers psychosocial aspects of an extensive array of illnesses, both chronic and life-threatening to various degrees. Most of the accounts are written by health care workers—an impressive array that includes nurses, physicians, and PhDs. Some are written by persons in dual roles, for instance, a nurse who provides two chapters on choriocarcinoma, an illness that she survived, and a PhD whose wife died of cancer. A chapter on psychosocial and cultural interventions in terminal illness is written by a man whose credentials are not mentioned at all.
Nuggets of useful information and points to think about are spread among the chapters. In a chapter on living …
