Books for Adults

ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES

Cassileth, B.R. The Alternative Medicine Handbook: The Complete Reference Guide to Alternative and Complementary Therapies. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998.

Fetrow, C. W, and Avila, J. R. Complementary and Alternative Medicines. Springhouse, PA: Springhouse, 1999.

Lerner, M.Choices in Healing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.

BEREAVEMENT AND GRIEF

Baugher, R., and Calija, M. A Guide for the Bereaved Survivor: A List of Reactions, Suggestions, and Steps for Coping with Grief. Renton, WA: Robert Baugher,1993.

Bernstein, J. R. When the Bough Breaks: Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1998.

Blank, J. W. The Death of an Adult Child: A Book for and About Bereaved Parents. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, 1998.

Fitzgerald, H. The Grieving Child: A Parents Guide. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Kubler-Ross, E. On Death and Dying. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Lewis, C. S. A Grief Observed. New York: HarperCollins, 1989.

Rando, T. A. Grieving: How to Go on Living When Someone You Love Dies. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1988.

Block, R., and Block, A. Fighting Cancer. Kansas City, MO: R.A. Block Cancer Foundation, 1992.

Cousins, N. Anatomy of an Illness Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration. New York: Bantam, Doubleday, Dell Publishers, 1991.

Fiore, N. The Road Back to Health: Coping with the Emotional Aspects of Cancer. New York: Bantam, Doubleday, Dell Publishers, 1984.

Harpham, W S. Diagnosis: Cancer-- Your Guide Through the First Few Months. New York: WW Norton & Company, 1998.

-----. When a Parent Has Cancer: A Guide to Caring for Your Children. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.

Larschan, E. J., and Larschan, R. J. The Diagnosis Is Cancer: A Psychological and Legal Resource Handbook for Cancer Patients, Their Families and Helping Professionals. New York: Bull Publishing Company, 1986.

Lipsyte, R. In the Country of Illness : Comfort and Advice for the Journey. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

Love, S. Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book. New York: Perseus Press, 1995. Pennebaker, J. W Opening Up: The Healing Power of Expressing Emotions. New York: Guilford Press, 1990.

Price, R. A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing. New York: Penguin Books,1995.

Radner, G. It's Always Something. New York: Avon Books, 1995.

Roloff, A. T. Navigating Through a Strange Land: A Book for Brain Tumor Patients and Their Families. Sheffield, MA: Option Indigo Press, 1995.

Schimmel, S. R., and Fox, B. Cancer Talk: Voices of Hope and Endurance from "The Group Room," the World Largest Cancer Support Group. New York: Broadway Books, 1999.

HUMOR

Wicks, B. Ben Wicks on Ovarian Cancer: The Disease That Whispers. Toronto, Canada: Ben Wicks & Associates, 1998.

Wicks, B. Ben Wicks' So You've Got Cancer. Toronto, Canada: Ben Wicks & Associates, 1997.

MEANING AND SPIRITUALITY

Bedard, J. Lotus in the Fire: The Healing Power of Zen. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1999.

Canfield, J., and Hansen, M. V. Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit. Deerfield Beach, Fl: Health Communications, 1996.

Coles, R. The Call of the Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination. New York: Houghton Mitllin Co., 1990.

Frankl, V.E. Man's Search for Meaning. New York: Washington Square Press, 1984.

Kabat-Zinn, J. Wherever You Go, There You Are. New York: Hyperion Press, 1995.

Kubler-Ross, E. The Wheel of Life. New York: Scribner, 1997.

Kushner, H. S. When Bad Things Happen to Good People. New York, Avon Books,1981.

MEDICINE AND SOCIETY

Rothman, D. Strangers at the Bedside: A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making. New York: Basic Books, 1991.

PALLIATIVE AND TERMINAL CARE

Callahan, D. The Troubled Dream of Life: In Search of a Peaceful Death. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

PERSONAL ACCOUNTS

Albom, M. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life Greatest Lesson. New York: Doubleday, 1997.

Conway, K. Ordinary Life, A Memoir of Illness. New York: W:H. Freeman & Company, 1997.

Groopman, J. The Measure of Our Days: New Beginnings at Life's End. New York: Viking Press, 1997.

Ryan, C., and Ryan, K. M. A Private Battle. New York: Fawcett Popular Library, 1980.

Sontag, S. Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. New York: Doubleday,1990.

Spingarn, N. The New Cancer Survivors: Living with Grace, Fighting with Spirit. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Williams, T. T. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. New York: Vantage Books, 1992.

Winawer, S. J., and Taylor N. Healing Lessons. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1998.

PREVENTION

Winawer, S. J., Shike, M., Bashe, P., and Subak-Sharpe, G. Cancer Free. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1995.

SEXUALITY

Schover, L. R. Sexuality and Cancer: For the Man Who Has Cancer and His Partner: Atlanta, GA: American Cancer Society, 1988.

----. Sexuality and Cancer: For the Woman Who Has Cancer and Her Partner Atlanta, GA: American Cancer Society, 1988.
----. Sexuality and Fertility After Cancer: New York: John Wiley& Sons, 1997.

SURVIVORS

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Facing Foward: A Guide for Cancer Survivors. Bethesda, MD: National Institutes ofHealth, 1990.