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A history of the present illness : stories / Louise Aronson.
- Title
- A history of the present illness : stories / Louise Aronson.
- Author
- Aronson, Louise
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3601.R67 H57 2013 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 259 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Medical fiction, American.
- Fictional Work
- Fiction
- Fiction.
- Medical fiction
- Short stories
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781608198306 (hbk.)
- 1608198308 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2012018354
- OCLC
- 793973829
- SCSB-12909141
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library