Ebook {Epub PDF} Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer by Susan Gubar

This is a powerful and wonderful book. The author, Susan Gubar, a very active academic, writes of her struggle with advanced ovarian cancer. Unlike breast cancer, ovarian cancer is very difficult to detect and treat. Like most cases her cancer was found in an advanced stage.4/5(86).  · Gubar's memoir is not easy reading. She recounts in detail the grotesque procedures and the horrendous pain and humiliation she endured. The author ponders why major advances have mounted up for the treatment of breast cancer, but little has changed in treating ovarian cancer.5/5(25).  · ovarian cancer. illness memoir. By Susan Gubar. Published by WW Norton Company, , hardback, pages. ISBN , £ In the foreword to her Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer, the renowned literary scholar Susan Gubar forewarns readers that her first-person account of suffering from ovarian cancer and its treatments offers no Author: Marta Bladek.

Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer Deborah Rogers is moved by a feminist scholar's meditation on the body, medicine and mortality Aug. If Schadenfreude is your thing, you're in for a treat. For everyone else, this raw and moving illness memoir is no party. Bringing her scholarly gifts to bear on the topic. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book "Staggering, searing Ms. Gubar deserves the highest admiration for her bravery and honesty." —New York Times Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in , Susan Gubar underwent radical debulking surgery, an attempt to excise the cancer by removing part or all of many organs in the lower abdomen. Her memoir mines the deepest levels of anguish and. Her book, Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring ovarian cancer, published in , candidly chronicles her cancer treatment. This included a radical debulking surgery—the removal of her ovaries, uterus, appendix, fallopian tubes and part of her intestine—to rid her body of as much cancer as possible. Gubar, 68, is well aware of her mortality.

Feminist literary scholar Susan Gubar was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer in November In Memoir of a Debulked Woman, she details — with graphic honesty — the physical and. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book "Staggering, searinghellip;Ms. Gubar deserves the highest admiration for her bravery and honesty." #;New York Times Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in , Susan Gubar underwent radical debulking surgery. Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer Deborah Rogers is moved by a feminist scholar’s meditation on the body, medicine and mortality Aug. If Schadenfreude is your thing, you’re in for a treat. For everyone else, this raw and moving illness memoir is no party. Bringing her scholarly gifts to bear on the topic.