My Prostate and Me: Dealing With Prostate Cancer($21.95Value)

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The author recounts how he survived prostate cancer, describes the disease's progress from diagnosis to treatment, and depicts his life today "The ability to write clearly and concisely about the things that happen to you and around you is a great gift. Most of us don't have it; Bill Martin very obviously does. My Prostate and Me is a book about love and fear, family and friends, risks and decisions. Ultimately, it is also about travel along a road which still has an unknown ending--but a road which now stretches out into the future in a way that it did not on the day the author received his diagnosis....Bill Martin's ability to integrate all these diverse elements together with accurate scientific and medical information about the highly controversial aspects of prostate cancer and its management makes this book a valuable and recommended contribution to the patient-oriented literature on prostate cancer." -- E. Michael D. Scott, CoMed Cancer InfoLink WILLIAM MARTIN, Ph.D., is the Harry and Hazel Chavanne Professor of Religion and Public Policy in the Department of Sociology at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and Senior Scholar in the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, also at Rice. His numerous magazine articles have appeared in such publications as The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Esquire , and Texas Monthly . He is the author of five other books, including A Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham Story (William Morrow, 1991) and With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America (Broadway Books, 1996), the companion volume to the PBS series of the same name. Dr. Martin has discussed My Prostate and Me on hundreds of radio and television stations in the United States and Canada and speaks frequently to prostate-cancer support groups and other organizations concerned with assisting cancer patients. In his role as a sociologist, Dr. Martin has appeared on 60 Minutes, Nightline, Today, The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, All Things Considered, 20/20 , and Frontline .