Field Guide to Falling Ill: Essays (The Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, 3) - Hardcover

Gleason, Jonathan

 
9780300282948: Field Guide to Falling Ill: Essays (The Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, 3)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 030028294X ISBN 13: 9780300282948
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

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."

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jonathan Gleason is an award-winning writer and a lecturer at the University of Chicago, where he teaches creative writing. Meghan O'Rourke is the judge for the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, editor of the Yale Review, and the author of The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
030028294X
ISBN 13 
9780300282948
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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