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A History of the Present Illness : Stories by Louise Aronson [Aronson, Louise] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A History of the Present Illness takes readers into overlooked lives in the neighborhoods, hospitals, and nursing homes of San Francisco, offering a deeply humane and incisive portrait of health and illness in American today. An elderly Chinese immigrant sacrifices his demented wife's well-being to his son's authority. A busy Latina physician's eldest daughter's need for more attention has disastrous consequences. A young veteran's injuries become a metaphor for the rest of his life. A gay doctor learns very different lessons about family from his life and his work, and a psychiatrist who advocates for the underserved may herself be crazy. Together, these honest and compassionate stories introduce a striking new literary voice and provide a view of what it means to be a doctor and a patient unlike anything we've read before.In the tradition of Oliver Sacks and Abraham Verghese, Aronson's writing is based on personal experience and addresses topics of current social...

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Author

Louise Aronson [Aronson, Louise]

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781620400081

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (96 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14