A family history of illness : memory as medicine
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Published
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018].
Physical Desc
xi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Families -- Psychological aspects.
Farm life -- Montana.
Genetic disorders -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
History -- Psychological aspects.
Immunologic diseases -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Memory -- Psychological aspects.
Montana -- Biography.
Walker, Brett L., -- 1967- -- Family.
Walker, Brett L., -- 1967- -- Health.
Walker, Brett L., -- 1967- -- Homes and haunts -- Montana.
Farm life -- Montana.
Genetic disorders -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
History -- Psychological aspects.
Immunologic diseases -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Memory -- Psychological aspects.
Montana -- Biography.
Walker, Brett L., -- 1967- -- Family.
Walker, Brett L., -- 1967- -- Health.
Walker, Brett L., -- 1967- -- Homes and haunts -- Montana.
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Published
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018].
Format
Book
Street Date
1803.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"In this deeply personal narrative, Brett L. Walker sets out to construct a history of his body and family health in an effort of better understanding his diagnosis with a serious immunological disorder in 2010. While succumbing to pneumonia and a plural effusion in an Intensive Care Unit, a doctor's simple question, 'Do you have a family history of illness?' launched Walker's investigation into his and his family's medical past. The final product represents a startlingly fresh way to view the role of history in understanding our physical selves and, in the broader sense, the communities where we live. In his family's history, Walker discovers something far more valuable than a predisposition to an immunological disorder. He concludes that family stories are what shape us and color our world. Walker's relationship with rural life on a Montana wheat and barley farm are what he continues to rehearse in his own imagination. He discovers that family is at the root of identity and values. Without ties to a family history, we are like wheat waving in the wind. This, he concludes, is the more lasting lesson of history. Walker submits that, at a time when only the present seems to matter, we must renew our interest in the past, or risk misunderstanding our selves and the world around us"--Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Walker, B. L. (2018). A family history of illness: memory as medicine . University of Washington Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Walker, Brett L., 1967-. 2018. A Family History of Illness: Memory As Medicine. University of Washington Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Walker, Brett L., 1967-. A Family History of Illness: Memory As Medicine University of Washington Press, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Walker, Brett L. A Family History of Illness: Memory As Medicine University of Washington Press, 2018.
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