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History of the Present Illness Stories

by Louise Aronson
History of the Present Illness Stories

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ISBN13: 9781620400074
ISBN10: 1620400073
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A History of the Present Illness takes readers into overlooked lives in the neighborhoods, hospitals, and nursing homes of San Francisco, offering a deeply humane and incisive portrait of health and illness in America today. An elderly Chinese immigrant sacrifices his demented wifes well-being to his sons authority. A busy Latina physicians eldest daughters need for more attention has disastrous consequences. A young veterans injuries become a metaphor for the rest of his life. A gay doctor learns very different lessons about family from his life and his work. And a psychiatrist who advocates for the underserved may herself be crazy. Together, these honest and compassionate stories introduce a striking new literary voice and provide a view of what it means to be a doctor and a patient unlike anything weve read before.

In the tradition of Oliver Sacks and Abraham Verghese, Aronsons writing is based on personal experience and addresses topics of current social relevance. Masterfully told, A History of the Present Illness explores the role of stories in medicine and creates a world pulsating with life, speaking truths about what makes us human.

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Sixteen elegant and original linked stories from a potent new voice--a doctor with an MD from Harvard and an MFA in fiction.

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Louise Aronson has an MFA from Warren Wilson College and an MD from Harvard. She has received the Sonora Review prize, the New Millennium short fiction award, and three Pushcart nominations. Her fiction has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review and the Literary Review, among other publications. She is an associate professor of medicine at UCSF, where she cares for older patients and directs the Northern California Geriatrics Education Center and UCSF Medical Humanities. She lives in San Francisco.

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Publication date:
01/14/2014
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pages:
272
Height:
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Width:
5.50IN
Thickness:
.75
Author:
Louise Aronson
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Literature-A to Z

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