A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT ILLNESS: STORIES
Book ID/图书代码： 14320012B56889
English Summary/英文概要： 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 relevance. Masterfully told, A History of the Present Illness explores the role of stories in medicine and creates a world pulsating with life, speaking truths about what makes us human.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《书目杂志》相关评论：
本书作者阿伦森(Aronson)大夫在这部作品以旧金山的一家医院中发生的16个故事汇集而成。 在这个故事中的患者、家庭和医生的人生轨迹皆因随机事件而发生了改变。 这其中也不乏错失的就医良机和许多错误的决定。 其中的一个故事中，医师被控杀害患者。 而另一边，正值青春叛逆期的女儿离家出走。 我们无从知道她的命运，或是这些忧心忡忡的父母身上还会发生些什么故事。 没有圆满的故事结局在另一些突发事件中延续。这部难得的故事， “却是不幸中又万幸地”，发生在一个11岁男孩翻滚在峭壁下。 遛狗偶然事发的事故现场，即使她有受过医疗培训，却也不愿插手。阿伦森(Aronson)有力生动地向我们展现了一幅混乱纷杂的生活场面。 希望仅仅是悲伤之前的跌跌撞撞。 人力的投入和意见的分歧，个人的责任和其他一些美国现阶段的医疗问题在我们才华横溢的作家阿伦森大夫面前一一被验证。
--Tony Miksanek
Awards/获奖情况：2014 LONGLISTS AND JUDGES($25,000)•Longlisted for Frank O’Connor
International Short Story Award
• “Aronson effectively illustrates just how jumbled life can be. Hope is limping barely one step ahead of sadness. Human devotion and division, responsibility to self and others are only a smidgen of the subject matter examined by talented and knowledgeable Aronson.” – Booklist
• “A less cute, more truthful version of Grey’s Anatomy.” – Kirkus
• “Louise Aronson invites us to bear witness as people—with very little fanfare, but with a profound sense of truth—to come to terms with what it really means to be a flawed, sick human being in a flawed, sick world. These stories are about medicine exactly in the way that medicine is about life: here hospitals contain whole worlds, physicians contain their patients, and the emotional and physical gestures of the urge to heal contain the whole fruitful and fruitless work of human connection.” – Chris Adrian
• “Eudora Welty described the work of another physician/story writer by saying that ’Chekhov’s candor was exploratory and painstaking—he might have used it as the doctor in him would know how, treating the need for truth between human beings as an emergency,’ words that seem to me to also apply here. Aronson’s quest, too, is for that truth." – Antonya Nelson
• “Some of the most startling and memorable stories I’ve ever read. [This] is a fascinating study of our fragile human condition, both physical and emotional. Here is a writer—and a doctor—whose empathy for her people, her characters, springs forth on every page.” – Peter Orner
About the Author/作者介绍： 路易丝•阿伦森拥有沃伦威尔逊学院作家项目艺术作家硕士专业学位，和哈佛医学院医学博士学位。 她曾获得过索诺拉评论奖，新世纪短篇小说奖，并曾三度获手推车奖提名。 在担任美国加州大学医学副教授期间，阿伦森一直关注各种不同的虚弱老年患者状况，并在加州北部老年教育中心和加州大学旧金山分校的医疗人文学科指导探索发现途径。 目前阿伦森大夫在旧金山定居。Louise Aronson has an MFA from Warren Wilson College and an MD from Harvard. She has received the Sonora Review prize, the New Millennium short fiction award, and three Pushcart nominations. Her fiction has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review and the Literary Review, among other publications. She is an associate professor of medicine at UCSF, where she cares for older patients and directs the Northern California Geriatrics Education Center and UCSF Medical Humanities. She lives in San Francisco.
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