Not The Last Goodbye: On Life, Death, Healing, and Cancer

David Servan-Schreiber

Harper Collins, Nov 22, 2011 - Health & Fitness - 176 pages

David Servan-Schreiber was a neuroscientist on an urgent mission to bring hope and alternatives to those with cancer. Nineteen years after being diagnosed with the disease, an emergency MRI confirmed his greatest fear: his brain cancer had returned. Here, he shares his coming to terms with the news and, with courage and candour, examines his life from the perspective of one who understands that his illness is terminal—nevertheless living every day fully and with purpose. As the author of Anticancer and a doctor who has given hope to millions around the world, Servan-Schreiber frankly acknowledges the ways in which he departed from his own advice. Reaffirming the Anticancer program—nutrition, exercise, rest and meditation—he also weaves in the stories of a number of clinical cases and offers a rebalanced approach, emphasizing certain elements that he himself tended to ignore.

Not the Last Goodbye raises many of the most complex and personal questions about how we choose to live and how we prepare for death, striking a delicate balance between the limits of medicine and the hope that sustains us as we confront them.

Contents

• Exhaustion: 2
• The Big: 2
• Bedridden in Cologne: 4
• The Land of the Living: 5
• Back in the Fish Tank: 6
• The Vampire of Leuven: 7
• Cold Shower: 8
• Turning Fifty The Elephant the Skull and the Wind: 9

About the author

DAVID SERVAN-SCHREIBER, MD, PhD, was clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and co-founder of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. His first book, The Instinct to Heal, was an international bestseller published in twenty-eight countries, and Anticancer was published in forty countries and has sold over 1.8 million copies. He passed away in July 2011.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Not The Last Goodbye: On Life, Death, Healing, and Cancer
• Author: David Servan-Schreiber
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2011
• ISBN: 144341090X, 9781443410908
• Length: 176 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / Diseases & Conditions / Cancer; Self-Help / Personal Growth / General