Anna (eBook)

A Daughter's Life

William Loizeaux (Autor)

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2011
216 Seiten
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62872-340-3 (ISBN)

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Born with a number of birth defects known as VATER Syndrome, Anna Loizeauxs chances for survival were uncertain. Each day was a gift and each moment was precious. Much of her brief life was spent in hospital nurseries and operating rooms, where medical technology and human intervention mustered all their resources to give her the chance for life that nature had not. In the end, they couldnt.Anna lived only a few precious, wonderful months, and when she died she shattered the lives of her parents. Where is the design to the death of a child? What is left to hold on to? William Loizeaux began to write a journal. Begun out of the agony of grief and the determination to forget nothing, Anna: A Daughter's Life becomes an affirmation: there is no life without a marker. In the terrible beauty and uncompromising honesty of her father's prose, Anna has her marker. This stunningly beautiful record of a fathers grief begun out of isolation and helpless rage, becomes an act of celebration. In it, he finds, and offers to us, the courage and spirit that asked so much from so brief a life. Here is an unforgettable portrait of an unforgettable child that reaches out to us all

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.11.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
• Schlagworte: american cultures secret war • american doctors • american medical • anne fadiman • anthropology class • born blind • central california • comfort care • compassionate care • congenital heart • county hospital • Cross cultural • Cultural beliefs • Cultural Competence • cultural competency • cultures meet • Doctor-patient relationship • doctors treating • Epileptic seizure • fadiman wrote • foster care • healthcare professionals • healthcare providers • Heart Defects • Heart Transplant • hmong child • hmong community • hmong cultural • hmong culture • hmong family • hmong girl • hmong parents • hmong people • hmong refugees • hmong students • intimate life • lee family • lia lee • lia's family • lia's parents • lia's story • Medical Anthropology • medical culture • medical doctors • medical schools • medical student • medical system • medical world • merced california • nao kao • precious daughter • Public Health • quiet war • refugee camps • Seizure disorder • Social service • spirit catches • thai refugee • traditional hmong • viet nam • western doctors • western medical hmong immigrants • Western medicine
• ISBN-10: 1-62872-340-8 / 1628723408
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62872-340-3 / 9781628723403