Not the Last Goodbye: Reflections on life, death, healing and cancer - Hardcover

Servan-Schreiber, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230763723 ISBN 13: 9780230763722

Publisher: Macmillan, 2011

Synopsis

This is the story of an award-winning psychiatrist and neuroscientist who was diagnosed with a brain tumour by his own MRI machine at the age of thirty. It is the story of a doctor turned patient who, after overcoming cancer against the odds, started a twenty-year crusade to inform people about the disease and inspire them to take responsibility for their health. It is the story of a husband and father who is told that the cancer has returned, and that he only has a short time left. This is a story about dying. But most of all, it is a story about living.

'A staggering manual for living' – Paris Match

'Each word rings true, each memory lingers, each detail of his life, now in limbo, brings us closer to the human condition. This book is a gift' – Elle

About this title

About the Author

David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D., was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and co-founder of the Center for Integrative Medicine. He co-directed an NIH laboratory for the study of clinical cognitive neuroscience and has published more than ninety articles in scientific journals. His last book, Anticancer, A New Way of Life, became an international bestseller and was translated into more than forty languages. His previous book, Healing Without Freud or Prozac was also an international bestseller. Following a yearlong battle with a relapse of brain cancer, David died in July 2011.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230763723
• ISBN 13: 9780230763722
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144