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Gearin-Tosh, Michael. Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny. Apr. 2002. 336p. Scribner, $22 (0-7432-2517-1). 362.1.

Gearin-Tosh's story of cancer and his choice of treatment for it (which is where the mutiny comes in) engages us with his and his friends' and colleagues' attitudes about his illness as well as those of various American and English general and specialist practitioners. He was diagnosed with multiple myeloma--bone-marrow cancer--in June 1994, and to treat this disease that is incurable but manageable by many treatment regimes, he eschewed regular Western medicine's usual use of powerful ...

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