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The Distance Between Breaths: Six Interconnected Essays on Biological Well-Being Amid Adversity Second Edition
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ISBN13: 9798187791118
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 19 2026
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 19 2026
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when survival does not restore the life you had-but asks you to build a new one from what remains?
A body can endure leukemia, profound anemia, autoimmune destruction, steroid toxicity, sepsis, cardiac strain, and a spontaneous brain bleed. But surviving each crisis does not mean returning to a single baseline. It means learning to live inside a physiology permanently altered by treatment, risk, memory, and adaptation.
A body can endure leukemia, profound anemia, autoimmune destruction, steroid toxicity, sepsis, cardiac strain, and a spontaneous brain bleed. But surviving each crisis does not mean returning to a single baseline. It means learning to live inside a physiology permanently altered by treatment, risk, memory, and adaptation.
In The Distance Between Breaths, Curt Boggs brings together six interconnected essays exploring biological well-being amid extreme adversity. Blending narrative medicine, systems biology, oncology, critical care, cardio-oncology, and neurorehabilitation, the book reveals how illness moves across the body rather than remaining confined to one diagnosis or specialty.
Here, oxygen transport depends on more than breathing. Immunity can become both weak and misdirected. A lifesaving drug can create new disease. The heart becomes shared infrastructure for every crisis. The brain, injured by a spontaneous subdural hematoma, must relearn how to organize attention, balance, memory, and agency.
Written with clinical precision and literary restraint, this is not a conventional medical memoir and not a textbook. It is a patient-centered examination of how organs, treatments, technologies, caregivers, and personal decisions combine to sustain a meaningful life under changed conditions.
For clinicians, medical students, informed patients, advocates, and readers of medical humanities, The Distance Between Breaths offers a compelling new vision of resilience: not triumph over damage, but the continuing ability to use limited capacity for a chosen act.
Here, oxygen transport depends on more than breathing. Immunity can become both weak and misdirected. A lifesaving drug can create new disease. The heart becomes shared infrastructure for every crisis. The brain, injured by a spontaneous subdural hematoma, must relearn how to organize attention, balance, memory, and agency.
Written with clinical precision and literary restraint, this is not a conventional medical memoir and not a textbook. It is a patient-centered examination of how organs, treatments, technologies, caregivers, and personal decisions combine to sustain a meaningful life under changed conditions.
For clinicians, medical students, informed patients, advocates, and readers of medical humanities, The Distance Between Breaths offers a compelling new vision of resilience: not triumph over damage, but the continuing ability to use limited capacity for a chosen act.
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