Physical by James McManus

"Includes a new afterword"--p. [4] of cover. First published: 2006.

The author negotiates the political and medical forks in the labyrinth of the country's health care system and calls for sanity and enlightenment in the stem cell research wars. It's a no-holds-barred, wrenching, but often hilarious portrait of the looming mortality of a privileged generation that can't believe the party's winding down, if not over.