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Mark Vonnegut
Most diseases can be separated from one’s self … schizophrenia is something we are. So begins Mark Vonnegut’s depiction of his descent into, and eventual emergence from, mental illness. This…
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Reflections from a life lived in medicine.
Pediatrician Mark Vonnegut has spent forty years treating children for coughs, fevers, ear infections, and sometimes more serious complaints. In that time he…
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The son of novelist Kurt Vonnegut offers this vivid and moving account of his devastating bout with schizophrenia and his long and difficult battle toward recovery. A highly readable, touching…
Vonnegut recalls the past 35 years of his life–from Harvard Medical School and a brilliant pediatrics career to the terrifying return of mental illness–while also reflecting on his unique New…
In this remarkable collection, 22 writers describe suicidal despair or mania–or coming to terms with a generational legacy of mental illness.ness.
Marc Leeds
Vonnegut’s five decades of writing yielded many worlds-worth of people, places, and things. This book is an invaluable tool for looking up the marvelous facts that exist only in the…
Over the past forty years, the health humanities has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and…
