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Author Walker, Brett L., 1967- author.

Title A family history of illness : memory as medicine / Brett L. Walker
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Nightmares -- Memories -- Immunodeficiencies -- Modalities -- Proteins -- Phenotypes -- Histories -- Legacies
Summary "In this deeply personal narrative, Brett L. Walker sets out to construct a history of his body and family health in an effort of better understanding his diagnosis with a serious immunological disorder in 2010. While succumbing to pneumonia and a plural effusion in an Intensive Care Unit, a doctor's simple question, 'Do you have a family history of illness?' launched Walker's investigation into his and his family's medical past. The final product represents a startlingly fresh way to view the role of history in understanding our physical selves and, in the broader sense, the communities where we live. In his family's history, Walker discovers something far more valuable than a predisposition to an immunological disorder. He concludes that family stories are what shape us and color our world. Walker's relationship with rural life on a Montana wheat and barley farm are what he continues to rehearse in his own imagination. He discovers that family is at the root of identity and values. Without ties to a family history, we are like wheat waving in the wind. This, he concludes, is the more lasting lesson of history. Walker submits that, at a time when only the present seems to matter, we must renew our interest in the past, or risk misunderstanding our selves and the world around us"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Walker, Brett L., 1967- -- Health
Walker, Brett L., 1967- -- Family
Walker, Brett L., 1967- -- Homes and haunts -- Montana
SUBJECT Walker, Brett L., 1967- -- Homes and haunts -- Montana
Walker, Brett L., 1967- -- Family
Walker, Brett L., 1967- -- Health
Subject Immunologic diseases -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
Genetic disorders -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
Families -- Psychological aspects.
History -- Psychological aspects.
Memory -- Psychological aspects
Farm life -- Montana
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Reference
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty
Families
Families -- Psychological aspects
Farm life
Genetic disorders -- Patients
Health
History -- Psychological aspects
Homes
Memory -- Psychological aspects
SUBJECT Montana -- Biography
Subject Montana
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017031983
ISBN 9780295743042
0295743042