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Physical : an American checkup / James McManus.

Title
Physical : an American checkup / James McManus.
Author
McManus, James.
Publication
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2006.

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Description
ix, 255 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
The author, a hard-living, happily married, middle-aged American, gets a three-day "executive checkup" at the Mayo Clinic and is thereby forced to confront his mortality. He has to survive his own cardiovascular system, inherited habits, and genetic handicaps long enough to see his small children into adulthood. But with so much at stake, and in spite of his terror of death, he may not have the willpower to follow the Mayo clinicians' advice. The book negotiates the political and medical forks in the labyrinth of our health care system and calls for sanity and enlightenment in the stem cell research wars. It's a portrait of the looming mortality of a privileged generation that can't believe the party's winding down, if not over.--From publisher description.
Subject
  • McManus, James
  • McManus, James > Health
  • Physical Examination
  • Middle Aged
  • Health Services
  • Health Behavior
  • Social medicine > United States
  • Medical care > United States
  • Middle-aged persons > Health and hygiene > United States > Case studies
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Popular Work
  • Case studies
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
That's that -- Lourdes MN -- Impedance plethysmography -- A foot and a half in the grave -- Pearl jam -- The soveraign weede, pounded small -- Nukular transfer -- Woo Suk Hwang, Suzi Leather, Miodrag Stojkovic, Lu Guangxiu, and the generous, farsighted cowgirls -- Midnight in the garden of good and evil -- Open-globe trauma -- Hey McMoron -- No Schmutz in here -- 8 o'clock Sunday morning -- Acknowledgments.
ISBN
0374232024 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • ^^2005018726
  • 9780374232023
OCLC
  • 61115433
  • SCSB-10020318
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library