A Most Clarifying Battle
The Spirit and Cancer
Published on 26. May 2017
152 pages
978-1-78535-546-2 (ISBN)
Description
Part resource and part memoir, this is the work of an extraordinarily courageous and shining figure who finished her manuscript before her illness finally claimed her. A Most Clarifying Battle provides a foundation for the reader to understand the experiential issues involved in living and dying with a cancer diagnosis and suggests simple exercises that can be used to build spiritual muscle and enhance quality of life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Collective Ink
File size
2,63 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78535-546-2 (9781785355462)
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Person
Chaplain, Scientist, Educator, Landis Vance knew the landscape of chronic illness and how it tested spirituality. She found periods of intense spiritual growth amidst the rubble of pain and debilitation. Her book speaks to the people who suffer and to those who care for them. A Most Clarifying Battle offers hope and the promise that life can be very good, even in the face of Stage 4 disease.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Other Works by the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: Illness and Death are Spiritual Experiences
- Part I: Research into Illness, Suffering, and Spirituality
- Chronic Illness, Suffering, and Society
- Loss in Chronic Illness
- Reliability in Chronic Illness
- Normalcy in Chronic Illness
- Medical Fatigue in Chronic Illness
- Communal Aspects of Illness
- Illness as an Agent of Spiritual Transformation
- More on Medical Fatigue
- Medical Fatigue and the Diagnosis
- Medical Fatigue and Spiritual Suffering
- Biomedical Culture Increases Spiritual Suffering
- Spiritual Well-being in Coping with Illness
- Spiritual Tools: Building Strong Spiritual Muscle Helps Minimize Pain and Suffering
- Joy
- Labyrinths
- Lectio Divina: Meditation on a text
- Mandalas
- Part II: My Personal Experiences of Illness
- Save Me from the Pink Ribbons
- I Hate Pink Ribbons
- "Am I My Cancer?" and Other Heresies
- Cancer and Loving Oneself
- Finding a Rabbit in a Hat: Miracles in Cancer Treatment
- Healing vs. Cure
- I Can't Feel Good: I'll Disappoint My Friends!
- Making a Decision But Fearing Its Consequences
- Surviving and Catching Up
- To Treat or Not to Treat: Questioning Life with Cancer
- Journal Entries: Daily Life with Metastatic Disease
- Part III: Turning the Corner
- Part IV: End Notes
- Glossary
- References
- About the Author: Landis M.F. Vance
- About the Artist: Csaba Osvath
