Salamander's Tale (eBook)

My Story of Regeneration?Surviving 30 Years with Prostate Cancer

Paul Steinberg (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
208 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-63220-953-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Staring in the face of prostate cancer at age thirty-five and metastatic disease and proposed surgical castration at age forty, Paul Steinberg was forced to take two simultaneous journeys. The first was to transition from doctor to patient and surrender his physical health to a medical establishment he knew from firsthand knowledge would be using approaches that would be outdated within a few years. The second was a spiritual journey. His search for a higher meaning in his life sent him as far as walking over hot coals with Tony Robbins.Using the salamander as his role model, Steinberg, a college-health and sports psychiatrist, takes a look at the evolution of the regenerative capabilities of cold-blooded vertebrates like the salamander and at what we as humans have lost and gained in our warm-bloodedness. How do human beings regenerate? How do we redeem ourselves when our capacity for regeneration is limited? How did the prostate evolve, and how does prostate cancer develop?With wit and humor, Steinberg tackles lust and sex, and ultimately time and death and the gods. Having lived longer than virtually anyone else with metastatic prostate cancer, he uses his knowledge as a doctor and experience as a patient to provide a story of endurance and perseverance, weaving a tale of grace, regeneration, and redemptionjust not the kind of regeneration and redemption that he or anyone else would expect.

Autor

Paul Steinberg, MD, has survived metastatic prostate cancer possibly longer than any other man in history. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and Washington Post. He practices in Washington, DC, where he lives with his wife, Helen.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.4.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie
• Schlagworte: advanced cancer • biopsy • Breast Cancer • cancer culture • cancer death • cancer diagnosis • cancer fight • cancer free • Cancer Patients • Cancer Research • cancers • cancer surgery • Cancer Survivors • Cancer Treatment • castration • Clifton • comprehensive guide • Cookbook • Cutting Edge • date information • death rates • Diagnostic Tests • diet • dr cohen • dysfunctional system • Gleason • gold standard • Heart disease • hopkins hospital • hopkins medical • Hormone Therapy • incontinence • information contained • informed decisions • janet farrar • june 2007 • layman terms • lay person • medical field • medical information • medical professionals • Metastatic • national cancer • newly diagnosed • offers hope • oncologist • Pelvis • Privates • prognosis • Prostate Cancer • prostate health • prostate surgery • prostrate cancer • radiation therapy • Radical prostatectomy • Research grants • robotic surgery • surgical removal • survival rate undergoing treatment • testing procedures • thanks dr • therapies breakthrough • Treatment Options • treatment plan • urologist • Urology • valuable resource • Walsh • worthington
• ISBN-10: 1-63220-953-5 / 1632209535
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63220-953-5 / 9781632209535