A Salamander's Tale
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A Salamander's Tale

My Story of Regeneration?Surviving 30 Years with Prostate Cancer

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Salamander's Tale

My Story of Regeneration?Surviving 30 Years with Prostate Cancer

About this book

Staring in the face of prostate cancer at age thirty-five and metastatic disease and proposed surgical castration at age forty, Paul Steinberg was forced to take two simultaneous journeys. The first was to transition from doctor to patient and surrender his physical health to a medical establishment he knew from firsthand knowledge would be using approaches that would be outdated within a few years. The second was a spiritual journey. His search for a higher meaning in his life sent him as far as walking over hot coals with Tony Robbins.Using the salamander as his role model, Steinberg, a college-health and sports psychiatrist, takes a look at the evolution of the regenerative capabilities of cold-blooded vertebrates like the salamander and at what we as humans have lost and gained in our warm-bloodedness. How do human beings regenerate? How do we redeem ourselves when our capacity for regeneration is limited? How did the prostate evolve, and how does prostate cancer develop?With wit and humor, Steinberg tackles lust and sex, and ultimately time and death and the gods. Having lived longer than virtually anyone else with metastatic prostate cancer, he uses his knowledge as a doctor and experience as a patient to provide a story of endurance and perseverance, weaving a tale of grace, regeneration, and redemption—just not the kind of regeneration and redemption that he or anyone else would expect.

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Information

Publisher
Skyhorse
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781632205698
eBook ISBN
9781632209535
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Personal Success

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Prologue
  7. Chapter 1: A Death in the Family
  8. Chapter 2: Come: Going, Going, Gone
  9. Chapter 3: My Head and My Doctors’ Heads Up My Butt
  10. Chapter 4: What Is the Prostate?
  11. Chapter 5: My So-Called Life
  12. Chapter 6: Mesmerized
  13. Chapter 7: The Salamander: Can We Humans Regenerate?
  14. Chapter 8: Oglia and Aglia
  15. Chapter 9: Oxygen—and a Cannot-Do Philosophy
  16. Chapter 10: The Infertile Road to Chinese Medicine: A Better Life Through Electricity, Not Chemistry
  17. Chapter 11: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way Back to Potency
  18. Chapter 12: This Way for the Testicle Remover, Eunuchs and Gentlemen
  19. Chapter 13: Youth Is Wasted on the Young
  20. Chapter 14: Redemption, of Sorts
  21. Chapter 15: Psychotherapy for the Psychiatrist with Serious Castration Anxiety
  22. Chapter 16: A Clichéd Deliverance
  23. Chapter 17: A Meditation on Lust and Sex, Time and Death
  24. Chapter 18: Following the Religion of Love
  25. Chapter 19: Sermons in Stones, Clarity in Calamity, Cogency in Cojones: Rebooting and Regenerating My Inner Life–and the Collective Inner Life
  26. Chapter 20: Our Own Personal Battles and Reconciliations–A Modern War and Peace
  27. Chapter 21: The Wonders of Irony and Paradox and Ambiguity
  28. A Twenty-First Century Keats
  29. A Final Note