Crossing the Phantom Pass

A Cancer Journey

Julia Kwong (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2025
Aevo Utp (Verlag)
978-1-4875-6591-6 (ISBN)

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In Crossing the Phantom Pass, Julia Kwong shares her journey of being diagnosed with breast cancer while her father battles terminal prostate cancer, narrating a story as contemplative as it is unflinchingly critical.

In this poignant and riveting personal narrative, Julia Kwong, distinguished professor emerita of sociology, explores her own experience of receiving a breast cancer diagnosis while her father is in the last stage of metastasized prostate cancer. In Crossing the Phantom Pass, she reflects on the medical process and her own emotional roller coaster in encountering this daunting illness in a dual sense.
With academic rigour and accessible prose, Kwong documents the ordinary fears, worries, and urgencies of cancer treatment. She takes readers through the emotional turmoil of her experiences as she undergoes complex surgery and radiation treatment. Kwong manages to complete her treatment just in time to return to Hong Kong and see her father one last time.
Crossing the Phantom Pass explores the uniqueness, as well as the commonalities, embedded in each cancer patient’s experience. Centring knowledge as power and resilience, Kwong integrates practical information and unfiltered realities into the emotional narrative of the book.
Questions of hope, death, and grief intertwine with critiques and commentary on the healthcare system, offering an honest portrayal of one woman’s journey – and a source of solace for others facing similar trials.

Julia Kwong is a distinguished professor emerita of sociology at the University of Manitoba and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her work has appeared and been reviewed in major journals of sociology, education, development, and Chinese Studies, and one of her books has received the American Educational Studies Association's Book of the Year Award.

Foreword
Arthur Kleinman

1. You’ve Got Cancer
2. A Tough Decision
3. Getting Past Gatekeepers
4. Outward Calm
5. Excision
6. Fatigue
7. Culinary Advice, Friendly Support
8. Bills to Pay
9. Radiation
10. Shopping Aerobics
11. Weekend of Anguish
12. Lost
13. Days of Hell
14. Grasping for Help
15. Safe at Last
16. Another Lifeline
17. Home Again
Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2025
Sprache	englisch
Maße	146 x 222 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie
ISBN-10	1-4875-6591-7 / 1487565917
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-6591-6 / 9781487565916
Zustand	Neuware