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Rebecca Whitehead Munn — All of Us Warriors (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 7, 2021 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

Cancer touched the life of Rebecca Whitehead Munn at an early age. Together with a wide circle of cancer patients and family members, she created All of Us Warriors: Cancer Stories of Survival and Loss. As often happens with cancer and other illnesses, this group of...

Book Review: Cancerland: A Medical Memoir by David Scadden, M.D.

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 7, 2018 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

David Scadden, M.D. titled his book Cancerland: A Medical Memoir. Truthfully, it’s more of a scientific history book. There’s very little in it that constitutes memoir, in the sense of personal experiences. He does tell a bit of his mother’s cancer story, and some...

Book Review: The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 6, 2017 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

Nina Riggs wrote The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying as she was being treated for stage four breast cancer, the kind that’s become only treatable, not curable. During the same time, Nina was saying goodbye to her mother, who had the same disease and...

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