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02736aam a22003498i 4500 001 B6ABFEB6315A11E78D3D21C8DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170505011630 008 161216s2017 nyu b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2016043492 020 $a 110198144X 020 $a 9781101981443 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a RJ45 $b .S545 2017 082 00 $a 618.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Silver, Elizabeth L., $d 1978- $e author. 245 14 $a The tincture of time : $b a memoir of (medical) uncertainty / $c Elizabeth L. Silver. 264 1 $a New York : $b Penguin Press, $c 2017. 300 $a x, 258 pages ; $c 22 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-258). 520 $a "Growing up as the daughter of a dedicated surgeon, Elizabeth L. Silver felt an unquestioned faith in medicine. When her six-week-old daughter, Abby, was rushed to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with sudden seizures, and scans revealed a serious brain bleed, her relationship to medicine began to change. The Tincture of Time is Silver's gorgeous and haunting chronicle of Abby's first year. It's a year of unending tests, doctors' opinions, sleepless nights, promising signs and steps backward, and above all, uncertainty : The mysterious circumstances of Abby's hospitalization attract dozens of specialists, none of whom can offer a conclusive answer about what went wrong or what the future holds. As Silver explores what it means to cope with uncertainty as a patient and parent and seeks peace in the reality that Abby's injury may never be fully understood, she looks beyond her own story for comfort, probing literature and religion, examining the practice of medicine throughout history, and reporting the experiences of doctors, patients, and fellow caretakers. The result is a brilliant blend of personal narrative and cultural analysis, at once a poignant snapshot of a parent's struggle and a wise meditation on the reality of uncertainty, in and out of medicine, and the hard-won truth that time is often its only cure. Heart-wrenching, unflinchingly honest, and beautifully written, The Tincture of Time is a powerful story of parenthood, an astute investigation of the boundaries of medicine, and an inspiring reminder of life's precariousness"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Medicine $x Practice. 650 0 $a Cerebrovascular disease in children $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Infants $x Diseases. 650 0 $a Parenthood. 650 0 $a Children of physicians $v Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 2 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006104741.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20170627013105.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B6ABFEB6315A11E78D3D21C8DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search