All of a Piece: A Life with Multiple SclerosisFor fourteen years, Barbara Webster suffered from multiple sclerosis undetected. Physicians and friends had considered her neurotic with her "imaginary" ailments. Here, she describes the gradual process of accepting life with a chronic, potentially disabling disease. |
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Contents
Wrestling with a Phantom | 1 |
The Disease | 16 |
After the Diagnosis | 36 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | All of a Piece: A Life with Multiple Sclerosis |
| Author | Barbara D. Webster |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | May 7, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0801837332, 9780801837333 |
| Length | 137 pages |
| Subjects | › Health & Fitness / Physical Impairments |
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