Physical

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.

המשפט הראשון: The truth is, I don't think I'm going to die.

שנה

2005

שפה

English

הוצאה

Picador / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

מהדורות

10

עמודים

257

ISBN

9780312426491

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata