A Long Walk Home
eBook - ePub

A Long Walk Home

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Long Walk Home

About this book

A Long Walk Home is Rachel Clark's evocative and moving account of her treatment and experiences with health professionals in Britain and Australia while she was living with, and dying from, cancer. It includes an Epilogue by her twin sister Naomi Jefferies, and learning points for health professionals by John Hasler and David Pendleton.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. About the author
  6. About the Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction – orienteering and oncology
  9. 1 Inside out and upside down – diagnosis
  10. 2 Ice magic – chemotherapy
  11. 3 Pick’n’mix – alternative therapies and options
  12. 4 Roots and roses – my origins and image
  13. 5 All the King’s horses – surgery
  14. 6 Tattoos and technology – radiotherapy
  15. 7 England’s pastures green -coming home
  16. 8 A panoramic view – the background picture
  17. 9 The messages for health professionals
  18. 10 Epilogue
  19. References
  20. Index