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Brian's song

screenplay
1972
The screenplay for the award-winning television drama about football star Brian Piccolo, who died at twenty-six after a seven-month battle against cancer.

Emily

2009
High school senior Emily Smucker, who is prone to illnesses due to a weak immune system, describes her symptoms and how, after a series of tests and misdiagnoses, she learns she is infected with the West Nile virus.

If I should die before I wake

2004
Fourteen-year-old Deanne decides to spend her summer vacation helping in the oncology ward of the hospital and risks having her heart broken when she befriends a young man dying of cancer.

Alex, the life of a child

1984
A father tells of his daughter, born with cystic fibrosis.

Solitaire

a narrative
1979
The author recounts the year she suffered from anorexia nervosa and explains how she recovered.

A shining season

1978
At twenty-four and a contender for the next Olympics, an elementary school coach discovers he has cancer.

Beauty

a novel
1996
Contemporary retelling of "Beauty and the Beast, " in which artist Alix Miller meets and falls in love with mystery writer Leland Crompton, a man who has withdrawn from the world due to a rare genetic disease that has left him disfigured.

The terminal man

2002
Harry Benson, a man who suffers from violent seizures, is implanted with electrodes that are designed to send soothing pulses to the pleasure centers of his brain, but something goes wrong with the operation and Benson sets out to get revenge on the doctors he believes are trying to turn him into a machine.

My sister's keeper

2009
Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.

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