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To doctors, cancer means cells growing out of control; to patients, cancer means a life spinning out of control. This book offers a glimpse, through dual perspective as physician and patient, of both sides of the medical divide. It ponders an array of human choices: thinking versus feeling, hanging on versus letting go, and more.

Explores the fascinating connections between university health centers and the evolution of American health and medicine. This book examines the relationship between administrative regulation of ""student bodies"" and broader social-cultural views about young adults and their status in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America.