The Resource A family history of illness : memory as medicine, Brett L. Walker
A family history of illness : memory as medicine, Brett L. Walker
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The item A family history of illness : memory as medicine, Brett L. Walker represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Contents
-
- Nightmares
- Immunodeficiencies
- Modalities
- Proteins
- Phenotypes
- Histories
- Epilogue
- Isbn
- 9780295743042
- Label
- A family history of illness : memory as medicine
- Title
- A family history of illness
- Title remainder
- memory as medicine
- Statement of responsibility
- Brett L. Walker
- Subject
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- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Reference
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty
- Biographies
- Biography
- Families
- Families -- Psychological aspects
- Families -- Psychological aspects
- Farm life
- Farm life -- Montana
- Genetic disorders -- Patients
- Genetic disorders -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
- History -- Psychological aspects
- History -- Psychological aspects
- Homes
- Immunologic diseases -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
- Memory -- Psychological aspects
- Memory -- Psychological aspects
- Montana
- Montana -- Biography
- United States
- Walker, Brett L, 1967- -- Family
- Walker, Brett L, 1967- -- Health
- Walker, Brett L, 1967- -- Homes and haunts -- Montana
- Health
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1967-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Walker, Brett L.
- Dewey number
- 920.009786
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- CT275.W24518
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Walker, Brett L
- Walker, Brett L
- Walker, Brett L
- Immunologic diseases
- Genetic disorders
- Families
- History
- Memory
- 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
- Farm life
- Genetic disorders
- Health
- History
- Homes
- Memory
- Montana
- United States
- Label
- A family history of illness : memory as medicine, Brett L. Walker
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Nightmares -- Immunodeficiencies -- Modalities -- Proteins -- Phenotypes -- Histories -- Epilogue
- Control code
- 992798651
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780295743042
- Lccn
- 2017031983
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctvct78gc
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)992798651
- Label
- A family history of illness : memory as medicine, Brett L. Walker
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Nightmares -- Immunodeficiencies -- Modalities -- Proteins -- Phenotypes -- Histories -- Epilogue
- Control code
- 992798651
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780295743042
- Lccn
- 2017031983
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctvct78gc
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)992798651
Subject
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Reference
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty
- Biographies
- Biography
- Families
- Families -- Psychological aspects
- Families -- Psychological aspects
- Farm life
- Farm life -- Montana
- Genetic disorders -- Patients
- Genetic disorders -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
- History -- Psychological aspects
- History -- Psychological aspects
- Homes
- Immunologic diseases -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
- Memory -- Psychological aspects
- Memory -- Psychological aspects
- Montana
- Montana -- Biography
- United States
- Walker, Brett L, 1967- -- Family
- Walker, Brett L, 1967- -- Health
- Walker, Brett L, 1967- -- Homes and haunts -- Montana
- Health
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
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