Five best books about the challenges of living with illness

Laura Landro, an assistant managing editor at the Wall Street Journal and its Informed Patient columnist, is the author of Survivor: Taking Control of Your Fight Against Cancer (1998). She named a five best list of "books about the challenges of living with illness" for her newspaper.Number One on the list:Death Be Not ProudBy John GuntherHarper & Row, 1949 Journalist and novelist John Gunther's