- Terminally Ill, Death, Psychology, Case Reports
Dr. Jerome Groopman, clinician and researcher, follows eight patients facing serious illness to create a compelling look at what can be learned when life itself can no longer be taken for granted.
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Contemporary, earnest, spare and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Jerome Groopman
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 242
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140269727
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