Excerpts from a family medical dictionary

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"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

subjects: Death and burial,  Death,  Family,  Cancer,  Women and death,  Patients,  Health,  Mothers and daughters,  Parents,  Biography,  Bereavement,  Neoplasms,  Families,  Cancer, patients,  New mexico, biography,  Patient Care,  Maternal Death,  Family Relations,  Therapy

People: Barbara Ann Wildman Brown (1928-1997),  Rebecca Brown (1956-)

Places: New Mexico,  United States