Finding Strength: A Mother and Daughter's Story of Childhood Cancer, (Paperback)

Professor Juanne Clarke has spent her career as a medical sociologist, exploring the public health system and the personal health systems of individuals. One of her book examined how women with breast cancer deal with diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. Then her 17-year-old daughter Lauren was diagnosed with leukemia, and the theories and paradigms of academe gave way to the real-life struggle of a mother and her daughter for healing and for the best medical treatment possible.

Finding Strength details two years in the lives of these two women, from early symptoms and denial, through diagnosis and two years of treatment, to a clean bill of health. Each chapter first describes the events of a particular time and then discusses the literature on the subject, relating to their own experience what medical and sociological researches have found. The book also includes an extensive bibliography and a list of resources for childhood cancer.