Research Catalog

Title

Physical : an American checkup / James McManus.

Author

McManus, James.

Publication

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2006.

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Details

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