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  Title

  Physical : an American checkup

  Author

  McManus, James.  

  Publisher:

  Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

  Pub date:

  2006.

  Pages:

  ix, 255 p. ;

  ISBN:

  0374232024

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    RA418.3 .U6 M36 2006	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  0374232024 (hardcover : alk. paper)

  Personal Author:

  McManus, James.

  Title:

  Physical : an American checkup / James McManus.

  Edition:

  1st ed.

  Publication info:

  New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

  Physical description:

  ix, 255 p. ; 24 cm.

  Summary:

  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.

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  Personal subject:

  McManus, James--Health.

  Subject term:

  Social medicine--United States.

  Subject term:

  Medical care--United States.

  Subject term:

  Middle-aged persons--Health and hygiene--United States--Case studies.

  HTTP:

  http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0515/2005018726.html

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