| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 284 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Barbara's cancer diary -- Barbara's death -- My eulogy for Barbara -- An optional writing assignment -- The other eulogies -- Students reading about Barbara's life -- Life after Barbara |
| Summary |
"In Dying to Teach, Jeffrey Berman confronts the most wrenching loss imaginable: the death of his beloved wife, Barbara. Through four interrelated narratives - how Barbara wrote about her illness in a cancer diary, how he cared for her throughout her illness, how his students reacted to his disclosure that she was dying, and how he responded to her death - Berman explores his efforts to hold on to Barbara precisely as she was letting go of life. Intensely personal, Dying to Teach affirms the power of writing to memorialize loss and work through grief, and demonstrates the importance of death education: teachers and students writing and talking about a subject that, until now, has often been deemed too personal for the classroom."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-271) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Pancreas -- Cancer -- Patients -- Biography
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Teacher-student relationships.
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Death.
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Caregivers.
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Eulogies.
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Hospice care.
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Death
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Caregivers
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deaths.
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eulogies (documents)
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer.
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Caregivers
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Death
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Eulogies
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Hospice care
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Pancreas -- Cancer -- Patients
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Teacher-student relationships
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781429465748 |
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1429465743 |
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079148050X |
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9780791480502 |
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