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Flesh and Blood - A History of My Family in Seven Sicknesses (Paperback)
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Flesh and Blood - A History of My Family in Seven Sicknesses (Paperback)
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'Powerful and affecting' Mail on Sunday 'Flesh and Blood is living
drama extracted like buried treasure from old documents and the
hand-me-down stories of his relatives. I couldn't put it down'Jenny
Agutter 'Intelligently structured and eloquently written, McGann's
book is a powerful homage to his family and Irish ancestry, to
modern medicine and the welfare state. Packed with lively anecdotes
and insights on social history, Flesh and Blood is a humble human
story with a majestic theme' Times Literary Supplement. 'Drama and
reality repeatedly intersect in unexpected ways in this powerful
and revealing memoir' Mail on Sunday 'Eloquent in its metaphors,
this book is about memory, how it shapes us, and what we choose to
pass on' Irish Times 'With its mix of readable science and
passionate sensibility, Flesh and Blood is essentially an attempt
to heal the old rift between science and art' Radio Times His
family survived famine-ravaged Ireland in the 1850s. His ancestors
settled in poverty-rife Victorian Liverpool, working to survive and
thrive. Some of them became soldiers serving on the Western Front.
One would be the last man to step off the SS Titanic as it sank
beneath the icy waves. He would testify at the inquest. This is
their story. Stephen McGann is Doctor Turner in the BBC hit-drama
series Call the Midwife. Flesh and Blood is the story of the McGann
family as told through seven sicknesses - diseases, wounds or
ailments that have afflicted Stephen's relatives over the last
century and a half, and which have helped mould him into what he
now perceives himself to be. It's the story of how health, or the
lack of it, fuels our collective will and informs our personal
narrative. Health is the motivational antagonist in the drama of
our life story - circumscribing the extent of our actions, the
quality of our character and the breadth of our ambition. Our
maladies are the scribes that write the restless and mutating
genome of our self-identity. Flesh and Blood combines McGann's
passion for genealogy with an academic interest in the social
dimensions of medicine - and fuses these with a lifelong
exploration of drama as a way to understand what motivates human
beings to do the things they do. He looks back at scenes from his
own life that were moulded by medical malady, and traces the
crooked roots of each affliction through the lives of his
ancestors, whose grim maladies punctuate the public documents or
military records of his family tree. In this way he asks a simple,
searching question: how have these maladies helped to shape the
story of the person he is today?
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