Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow, an extraordinary narrative woven from the lives of four generations of her family, illuminates fascinating-and until now unexplored-strands of Vietnamese history. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural poverty to beco…
The author tells the story of four generations of her family, from the nineteenth century through the 1990s, in an effort to show the impact of historical events and politics on Vietnamese families.
Traditionalists insist that literature transcends culture. Others counter that it is subversive by nature. By challenging both claims, Genealogy and Literature reveals the importance of literature for understanding dominant and often violent power/knowledge relations within a gi…
This book is a concise and accessible resource on how to take and record a patient's family medical history to determine if the patient's affliction has a genetic component. In an era of managed care, physicians must be selective about which patients are truly in need of special…
This book is a concise and accessible resource on how to take and record a patient's family medical history to determine if the patient's affliction has a genetic component. In an era of managed care, physicians must be selective about which patients are truly in need of special…
"Compiling the most recent genetic developments in medical specialties, The Practical Guide to the Genetic Family History is a valuable resource which outlines the proper methods for taking and recording a patient's family medical history, allowing primary care physicians to be …