Field Guide to Falling Ill: Essays - Hardcover

$28.00

Field Guide to Falling Ill: Essays - Hardcover

Name: Field Guide to Falling Ill: Essays - Hardcover
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SKU: 9780300282948
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by Jonathan Gleason

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Book Overview

From the inaugural winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, a riveting exploration of illness and medicine that imagines a more humane form of care

"What was wrong with them? That's what we wanted to know." So begins Jonathan Gleason's prizewinning collection of essays on the human lives behind the corporate, legal, and cultural practices that shape disease. Drawing on his experiences as a medical interpreter and patient, Gleason illuminates a stunning range of topics, including the racial dimensions of organ donation, the past and present of the AIDS crisis, and the troubled relationship between state violence and mental illness. With sharp analysis and boundless empathy, Gleason shows how medicine is shaped by cultural narratives, historical contexts, and the complicated people who practice it.

In her foreword, Meghan O'Rourke, judge of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, writes that "illness is often framed as a crisis to endure or overcome. But as Gleason's work reminds us, illness is also a way of knowing. His essays speak to the precarious beauty of that knowing, and to the ways it connects us--to history, to culture, to one another."

ISBN	9780300282948
Author	Jonathan Gleason
Publisher	Yale University Press
Genre	Literature
Format	Hardcover
Published	January 2026
Language	ENG- English
Pages	256
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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