| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
ix, 257 pages ; 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
McManus, James -- Health.
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McManus, James. |
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Health. |
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Social medicine -- United States.
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Social medicine. |
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United States. |
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Medical care -- United States.
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Medical care. |
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Middle-aged persons -- Health and hygiene -- United States -- Case studies.
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Middle-aged persons -- Health and hygiene. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Subject |
Medical care. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| ISBN |
0374232024 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780374232023 hardcover alkaline paper |
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