Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary

by RebeccaBrown (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $3.24

  In 1997 Rebecca Brown's mother, Barbara Wildman Brown, became ill with cancer. Here, the author traces, in sparse prose, the slow, gradual erosion of her mother's health, her dignity and her life. In 17 short chapters, from anaemia , twilight sleep and metastasis , to unction , cremation and remains , the author describes the family's journey through her mother's illness and death. Written unsentimentally, and sometime with painful honesty, Excerpts From a Family Medical Dictionary is a moving commemoration of a life and death.