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Flesh and Blood A History of My Family in Seven Maladies by Stephen McGann

Flesh and Blood A History of My Family in Seven Maladies by Stephen McGann

Biography & Autobiography, Disease & Health Issues, History, Personal Memoirs, Simon & Schuster, Social Science, Stephen McGann, Non-fiction Flesh and Blood is the story of the McGann family as told through seven maladies - diseases, wounds or ailments that have afflicted Steve's relatives over the last century and a half, and which have helped mould him into what he now perceives himself to be. It's the story of how health, or the lack of it, fuels our collective will and informs our personal narrative. Health is the motivational antagonist in the drama of our life story - circumscribing the extent of our actions, the quality of our character and the breadth of our ambition. Our maladies are the scribes that write the restless and mutating genome of our self-identity. Flesh and Blood combines McGann's passion for genealogy with an academic interest in the social dimensions of medicine - and fuses these with a lifelong exploration of drama as a way to understand what motivates human beings to do the things they do. He looks back at scenes from his own life that were moulded by medical malady, and trace the crooked roots of each affliction through the lives of his ancestors, whose grim maladies punctuate the public documents or military records of my family tree. In this way he asks a simple, searching question: how have these maladies helped to shape the story of the person he is today?
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Genres and Themes
Biography & Autobiography, Disease & Health Issues, History, Personal Memoirs, Simon & Schuster, Social Science, Stephen McGann , Non-fiction

Condition

As New
Pages

318
Language

EN
Publication Date

2017


ISBN

9781471163975
Binding

Paperback
Publisher

Simon & Schuster, Limited