The Peripatetic Pursuit of Parkinson Disease provides information and inspiration to improve life with PD. The Parkinsons Creative Collective compiled this anthology of experiences containing articles by over 100 experts on PD -- the patients themselves. They speak with compassion and honesty to those newly diagnosed as well as to those who have lived with PD for years. Personal narratives help the reader understand the emotions and remember the facts in this full color, illustrated resource. Going beyond the basics and presented from the patients viewpoint, the book includes: strategies to improve health, quality of life, and wellness in spite of PD; opinions about the development of new treatments; and how to face a wide range of life challenges that accompany a PD diagnosis.
Who should read this book?
People with PD, and their friends and family
Physicians and healthcare workers
Researchers and organizations
It's the perfect read for anyone who wants to learn more, to understand PD on a visceral level and improve living with any chronic disease. If you are seeking a book that combines the kind of honest, practical information found in the Boston Women's Health Collective's Our Bodies, Ourselves with the magnetic beauty of your favorite coffee table book, The Peripatetic Pursuit of Parkinson Disease is it!
*Note: the new trend is to drop the apostrophe s in Parkinson's, unless it is in an organization's name .
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If you're looking for a simple didactic, here's what you should do approach to Parkinson, then you should go elsewhere. If you want to be spoon fed, like a child, this book is not the answer. This is not a book for mental couch potatoes. This is a book for active enquiring minds who just happen to have PD.
So if you are a thinker and like your brain cells regularly tickled, this book is for you. If you want answers, they are here. But more importantly, so are questions and ideas. And if you want to really understand your PD, what it means to you as a person and to those around you, you are already knocking on the door.
This is a book which prompts original thought, challenges existing dogma, provokes responses, and empowers the reader. It is further even than that -- it's an aerobic workout for the brain!
The book is also accessible. Individual sections are short and punchy. Personal testimonies abound, providing intimacy and a human scale to the neurobiology. Everything is here -- from reactions to diagnosis through to the ethics of sham surgery in clinical trials. And all points in between.
You may not know it yet but this book is what you have been waiting for. Jon Stamford, PhD, co- founder of Parkinson s Movement,UK
--Review: On the Move, Newsletter, UK, Autumn 2013.
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