Cancer Stories: Lessons in Love, Loss, and Hope

Edited by JOHN TEMPLE and JOEL BEESON

West Virginia University Press

'Cancer Stories is a truly collaborative project, bringing together journalism students, cancer patients, physicians, nurses, and other health care providers. It provides an accurate, honest and occasionally heartbreaking look at what it means to have cancer.'Dr. Eddie Reed, former director, The Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center

John Temple and Joel Beeson are assistant professors in The Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University. Temple teaches news and feature-writing courses and heads the News-Editorial sequence. He is a creative nonfiction author and a former staff writer for the Tampa Tribune. Beeson's specialty area is visual journalism. He has an MA from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism and is doing doctoral work on social documentary and new media with marginalized communities.

•Foreword
Christrine Martin
•Introduction
Jennifer Roush
•He Keeps Going
Grant Smith, photographs by Melissa Nethken
•Reconstruction
Ivy Smith, photographs by Lingbing Hang
•As the Legacy Descends
Jennifer Roush, photographs by Karina Gomes Dick
•Vernon M. Knode III
Eunice Rohrere
•Banana Bread
Jan Lauren Boyels, photographs by Barbara Griffin
•The Junction
Katie Stout
•Remission
Kelly Carr, photographs by Barbara Griffin and Melissa Nethken
•Stubborn Enough
Pam Kasey, photographs by Courtney Balestier
•Listening for Cancer Stories
David G. Allen

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