On the Spring Tide : A Special Kind of Courage

By William Rowan

From a childhood spent in a Japanese prison camp in Manila, this true story traces the impact of long-term unresolved fear and stress on a woman's adult years.An important book for all women who have... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966286049
• ISBN13: 9780966286045
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Cenografix
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A highly convincing look at cancer and traumatic stress.

This book is a highly personal and terribly moving look at therelationship between profound stress and cancer/cancer treatment. Theauthor tells the story of his wife, Jeanette Rowan, who was a prisoner of war for three years in Manila during World War II. In late mid-life Jeanette developed breast cancer that ultimately proved fatal. While never stooping to vilify the physicians who cared for her, the author does a wonderful job of using Jeanette's experience to set forth some interesting questions about what the optimal approach to cancer treatment might be for someone who had been so systematically, traumatically, and completely stripped of control during her formative years. William Rowan writes beautifully as Jeanette's husband and helpmate, and his writing is wonderfully informed by his own professional understanding of microbiology. *On the Spring Tide* would be very valuable for cancer patients, for their friends and families, for oncologists, and for therapists. Highly recommended!