This Book Won't Cure Your Cancer edition by Gideon Burrows Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
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Change your diet. Think positive and you'll live. Doctors aren't always right. Get some experimental treatment. Watch this YouTube video. Read this article. Visit this website. It's the chemo that'll kill you, not the cancer.
There's always a chance.
There's always hope.
There's no harm in trying...
When Gideon Burrows was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour, he found himself in the cancer twilight zone a place where hope and wellbeing are exalted, and where truth and rationality are sometimes optional extras.
It's a world where the dying are always bravely battling, survivors are venerated and where charities and wellness gurus are beyond criticism. It's a place of miracle diets, self-healing and positive thinking.
When there are so many contradicting opinions and so much background noise, how do you separate the sane from the sound? How do you make decisions that are wise rather than wishful thinking?
This book challenges the very foundations of how we respond to the disease. It will make you angry, it may make you cry. It will make you feel hopeful and hopeless in equal measure.
Above all, though, it will make you think.
This Book Won't Cure Your Cancer edition by Gideon Burrows Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
Like me, the author has a terminal cancer. He tackles the illogical world of alternative medicine and systematically dismantles each of their arguments in a rational but not mean-spirited way. He is forceful and respectful, exploring nuanced questions from both a micro and macro (societal) level. Since fully one half of us can expect to experience a cancer diagnosis, his book should be on your reading list. There are conversations we need to have, as a society, and things folks need to understand, in order to make truly informed decisions. This book will help.Product details
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This Book Won't Cure Your Cancer edition by Gideon Burrows Health Fitness Dieting eBooks Reviews
Excellent book by a brain tumor patient, author compares alternative medicine to conventional in a fair and beautiful way. I heartily recommend this book to anyone dealing with a brain tumor or any sort of cancer requiring treatment. His description of the social implications after diagnosis are deeply insightful.
I came across this book from Harriet Hall's fantastic review at Science-Based Medicine https//www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/this-book-wont-cure-your-cancer-but-it-will-help-you-think-more-clearly-about-it/
It's pretty hard to add anything to that. Just a superbly written book which faces no-holds-barred the brutal realities of living with a terminal cancer diagnosis. Burrows' unrelenting honesty and critical thinking skills lead to a compassion that most other cancer books - by providing false hopes and impossible cures - necessarily fall short of. I will probably read this a second time.
Tells it like it is.
This book started out fairly interesting. I thought the switching back and forth between narration of the author's personal experience and discussion of cancer more generally was effective. However, near the end it seemed less interesting.
I think everyone should read this book. You will encounter people in your life dealing with cancer; whether they have it, had it or have a loved one who has/had it. This book opens up the discussion about how people with cancer are turned into "brave warriors fighting their cancer battle" by healthy people and medical professionals - we make them into totems against our own fear of illness. Its woefully unfair, unsupportive and ultimately unhelpful. Hopefully after reading this book you will have a good long think about how to treat others and yourself with sensitivity instead of projecting your needs onto their illness.
The author, Gideon Burrows, was diagnosed with a brain tumour when he was about 35 years old. For most people, that is a young age to have tumour. For most people, a cancer diagnosis is a death warrant. He started reading about cancer and all the promised cures and medical claims. He found only 'The Biology of Cancer' to be the only book about the science and medical treatment of cancer. There are some books that are bound to be interesting, such as 'The Emperor of All Maladies', but by and large, there are not many books that will be of real comfort to a cancer patient. Some he found to be huge disappointments – he named David Servan-Schreiber’s best seller ‘Anticancer a new way of life’ as one. His detailed comments are found in pages 33 to 40 of this book. Burrows found that cancer patients seek books on alternative treatments (after all, the conventional treatment will be taken care of by the patient's doctors). Burrows do not find these alternative treatment books of much help.
He goes on to write his own book partly to warn other patients about the unproven claims that are found in so many such books. The cancer patient usually does not have much time left. Burrows gives an account of his own brief post diagnosis life expectation and what he does with it. This is a calm, rational, and thoughtful book, that in writing it, Burrows helps himself to accept his fate, and perhaps, some readers in similar straits may find this short book a comfort and a guide to the short last ride in life.
Like me, the author has a terminal cancer. He tackles the illogical world of alternative medicine and systematically dismantles each of their arguments in a rational but not mean-spirited way. He is forceful and respectful, exploring nuanced questions from both a micro and macro (societal) level. Since fully one half of us can expect to experience a cancer diagnosis, his book should be on your reading list. There are conversations we need to have, as a society, and things folks need to understand, in order to make truly informed decisions. This book will help.
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