Final Negotiations - A Story of Love, and Chronic Illness

When Carolyn Ellis, a graduate student, and Gene Weinstein, her Professor, fell in love, he was experiencing the first stages of emphysema. As he became disabled and immobile, these two partners fought to maintain their love and to live a meaningful life. This memoir is about what it means to be involved, and in love, with someone chronically ill.

Summary

When Carolyn Ellis, a graduate student, and Gene Weinstein, her Professor, fell in love, he was experiencing the first stages of emphysema. As he became disabled and immobile, these two partners fought to maintain their love and to live a meaningful life. This memoir is about what it means to be involved, and in love, with someone chronically ill.

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn Ellis
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.01.1995
• EAN: 9781566392716
• ISBN: 978-1-56639-271-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 152 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 532 g
• Series: Health Society And Policy; Health Society and Policy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General