Book
A history of the present illness : stories / Louise Aronson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781608198306 (hc.)
- ISBN: 1608198308 (hc.)
- Physical Description: 259 p. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Snapshots from an institution -- An American problem -- Giving good death -- Heart failure -- Becoming a doctor -- After -- Twenty-five things I know about my husband's mother -- Soup or sex? -- Fires and flat lines -- The psychiatrist's wife -- Blurred boundary disorder -- Vital signs stable -- Days of awe -- Lucky you -- The promise -- A medical story. |
| Summary, etc.: | Sixteen linked stories explore the marginalized humanity in communities, hospitals and nursing homes in San Francisco, including an elderly Chinese immigrant who is forced to make a painful sacrifice and a young veteran whose injuries symbolize the rest of his life. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Physician and patient > Fiction. San Francisco (Calif.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Short stories. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
