“Then You Are a Man, My Son”

Are you pulling my airway?

E xcessive airway narrowing is a hallmark of asthma. This is due to unencumbered shortening of airway smooth muscle, leading to severe airways obstruction and even closure of airways. Remarkably, in healthy subjects, this does not occur, and there is little doubt that the explanation of this apparent ‘‘protection’’ in normal subjects will be essential for our understanding of asthma. Parenchyma...

This Stranger, My Son

This is the story of how a conventional middle-class American household?a surgeon, his wife and three normal children?had first to recognise, then to cope with and, finally, to exclude, an abnormal family member. Tony was a beautiful child, the eldest, and apart from long hours of screaming for no apparent reason, he seemed a normal baby. His intellectual and motor development was average, but ...

Goodbye, My Son

Woolson. (Frederick Midler, 18s.). This is the account of his adult son's psychotic illness by an American journals and of the way in which members of his family tried to readjust themselves to its effects upon their lives and personalities. The narrative is a painful one, and the author?deeply involved by his oW almost desperate efforts to help his son and to understand the changes in him^ wri...

You Are Always on My Mind

Dr. Torrey is a research psychiatrist who specializes in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He is Founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center, Associate Director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute, and the author of American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System. Ms. Dailey is a legislative and policy counsel at the Treatment Advocacy Center. S...

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