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Life, faith, and cancer : Jewish journeys through diagnosis, treatment, and recovery / edited by Douglas J. Kohn.
- Title
- Life, faith, and cancer : Jewish journeys through diagnosis, treatment, and recovery / edited by Douglas J. Kohn.
- Publication
- New York : URJ Press, c2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RC265.5 .L54 2008 | Off-site | |
| Text | Request in advance | RC265.5 .L54 2008 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Kohn, Douglas
- Description
- xxi, 255 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Survivors
- Religion and Medicine
- Neoplasms > therapy
- Judaism
- Jews
- Neoplasms > psychology
- Cancer > Patients > United States > Biography
- Rabbis > United States > Biography
- Cancer > Judaism
- Spiritual life > Judaism
- Neoplasms > psychology > Popular Works
- Jews > Popular Works
- Judaism > Popular Works
- Neoplasms > therapy > Popular Works
- Religion and Medicine > Popular Works
- Survivors > Popular Works
- Genre/Form
- Popular Work
- Personal Narrative
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-255).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part I. Diagnosis: So You've Got Cancer : 1. Discovering Vulnerability / Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell ; 2. Not knowing could be your biggest health risk: Genetic Testing for breast and ovarian cancer / Joy Wasserman with Douglas J. Kohn ; 3. Why Me? / Rabbi DouglasJ. Kohn ; 4. Facing Mortality / Rabbi Michael Balinsky ; 5. Learning and Discovering: Systems of Support / Rabbi Hirshel Jaffe, Rabbi James Rudin and Marcia Rudin ; 6. Developing a New Reality: Waltzing with the Malakh Hamavet / Rabbi Elaine Zecher
- Part II. Treatment : 7. How to Pursue: The Obligation to Heal / Dr. William Cutter ; 8. Facing Treatment / Rabbi Stacia Deutsch ; 9. Leaving it Behind / Harriet M. Levine ; 10. A Spiritual Dimension / Cantorial Soloist Diane Krasnick ; 11. Conventional and Experimental Options / Rabbi Andrew R .Sklarz ; 12. Beginning Recovery, Finding Blessings / Cantor Vicki L. Axe
- Part III. Recovery : 13. A New Routine / Rebecca Meyer Carr ; 14. The Lump, the Bump or the Swallow: Is it Cancer? / Rabbi Randi Musnitsky ; 15. Cancer Time: A month, Six months, Twelve months... / Rabbi Jonathan M. Brown ; 16. We, the Lucky Ones / Rabbi Myra Soifer ; 17. Surviving the Valley: a journey without a beginning / Rabbi Stanley M. Davids ; 18. Our Sacramental Personality / Rabbi Gary Phillip Zola ; 19. The New Can Become Holy / Rabbi Yael B. Ridberg.
- ISBN
- 9780807410592
- 0807410594
- LCCN
- ^^2007022433
- OCLC
- 141187893
- SCSB-10588573
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library