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The last work of a scholar whose life mirrored her work

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"The author's multiple voices—scholar, sociologist, victim—provide an academic, yet personal, professional, yet poignant, story....Readers face...the 'contradictory meanings' that an especially articulate woman brings to the final chapter of her life."
—Women and Health

"Paget's book is stunning. It's a tribute to the invulnerable human spirit. The woman burned like a flame; obviously she died well, because she lived well; she was loved because she was loving. The book is tremendously sad, but it isn't depressing; somehow, one is left with a sense of human possibility."
—Joan Cassell, author of Expected Miracles: Surgeons at Work



Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Editor's Introduction 1. Life Mirrors Work Mirrors Text Mirrors Life... 2. Performing the Text 3. The Work of Talk 4. Letters to My Friends 5. Journal Notes Epilogue --Marjorie L. DeVault Notes References

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      Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: 15/12/1993
      ISBN13: 9781566391924, 978-1566391924
      ISBN10: 156639192X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The last work of a scholar whose life mirrored her work

      Trade Review
      "The author's multiple voices—scholar, sociologist, victim—provide an academic, yet personal, professional, yet poignant, story....Readers face...the 'contradictory meanings' that an especially articulate woman brings to the final chapter of her life."
      —Women and Health

      "Paget's book is stunning. It's a tribute to the invulnerable human spirit. The woman burned like a flame; obviously she died well, because she lived well; she was loved because she was loving. The book is tremendously sad, but it isn't depressing; somehow, one is left with a sense of human possibility."
      —Joan Cassell, author of Expected Miracles: Surgeons at Work



      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Editor's Introduction 1. Life Mirrors Work Mirrors Text Mirrors Life... 2. Performing the Text 3. The Work of Talk 4. Letters to My Friends 5. Journal Notes Epilogue --Marjorie L. DeVault Notes References

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