A Family Disease

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  • A Family Disease Book Detail

  • Author : Dana Lorene Creighton
  • Release Date : 2021-01-11
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
  • Pages : 203
  • ISBN 13 : 1476683182
  • File Size : 51,51 MB

A Family Disease by Dana Lorene Creighton PDF Summary

Book Description: Dana Creighton and her mother both were affected by the same inherited cerebellar degeneration, known as ataxia--a loss of control over body movements. Both were treated by a healthcare system that failed them in different ways. Yet their experiences were disparate. Creighton eventually found the right tools to piece together meaning in her life; her mother resisted accepting her condition, in part because doctors repeatedly said nothing was wrong with her. Twenty-five years after her mother's suicide, Creighton's memoir finds striking similarities and differences in their lives and traces a lineage of family trauma. Drawing on research in neuroplasticity, medical records, personal correspondence and genealogy, the author highlights the gap between the lived experience of a debilitating ailment and the impersonal aims of clinicians. She shows how the stories parents tell themselves about living with a genetic disorder influences how they communicate it to their children.

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