December 2008
3 posts
The Triumphant Return of Mr. Rot
I’ve been in a rough campaign battle and I’ve lost – again. According to my personal polling results, it wasn’t even a close race.  I am not going to be elected The Well-Woman with at least a four-year term guarantee. I call my autoimmune disease Mr. Rot and he has returned.  He’s right back at my side, as close as he can get to me and is he ever triumphant!  He and I have been partners for so...
Dec 10th
About the Authors
Alida Brill is a feminist social critic who has written on such diverse topics as medical and sexual privacy, the ethics surrounding the right to die, the role of gender in society, tolerance and prejudice and the conflict between the personal and the public. See her website for more. Michael D. Lockshin, M.D. is one of the world’s leading experts in the long-term care of chronically ill people....
Dec 8th
Press Release
Press Release: DANCING AT THE RIVER’S EDGE: A Patient and Her Doctor Negotiate Life with Chronic Illness SCHAFFNER PRESS KICKS OFF 2009 BY TAKING THE MEMOIR FORM TO NEW HEIGHTS WITH ALIDA BRILL’S AND MICHAEL D. LOCKSHIN’S PROVOCATIVE MEMOIR DANCING AT THE RIVER’S EDGE:A PATIENT AND HER DOCTOR NEGOTIATE LIFE WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS LOS ANGELES, CA- DECEMBER 10, 2008-Schaffner Press will publish...
Dec 7th