《sickened》是2004年Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Julie Gregory。
基本介紹
- 中文名：sickened
- 作者：Julie Gregory
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9780553381979
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet anotherdoctor’s examining table, missing yet another day of school. Justtwelve, she’s tall, skinny, and weak. It’s four o’clock, and shehasn’t been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on theother hand, seems curiously excited. She's about to suggestopen-heart surgery on her child to "get to the bottom of this." Shechecks her teeth for lipstick and, as the doctor enters, shoots thegirl a warning glance. This child will not ruin her plans.SickenedFrom early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually X-rayed,medicated, and operated on—in the vain pursuit of an illness thatwas created in her mother’s mind. Munchausen by proxy (MBP) is theworld’s most hidden and dangerous form of child abuse, in which thecaretaker—almost always the mother—invents or induces symptoms inher child because she craves the attention of medicalprofessionals. Many MBP children die, but Julie Gregory not onlysurvived, she escaped the powerful orbit of her mother's madnessand rebuilt her identity as a vibrant, healthy young woman.Sickened is a remarkable memoir that speaks in an original anddistinctive Midwestern voice, rising to indelible scenes in proseof scathing beauty and fierce humor. Punctuated with Julie's actualmedical records, it re-creates the bizarre cocoon of her family'sisolated double-wide trailer, their wild shopping sprees andgun-waving confrontations, the astonishing na?veté of medicalprofessionals and social workers. It also exposes the twisted bondsof terror and love that roped Julie's family together—including thelove that made a child willing to sacrifice herself to win hermother's happiness.The realization that the sickness lay in her mother, not inherself, would not come to Julie until adulthood. But when it did,it would strike like lightning. Through her painful metamorphosis,she discovered the courage to save her own life—and, ultimately,the life of the girl her mother had found to replace her. Sickenedtakes us to new places in the human heart and spirit. It is anunforgettable story, unforgettably told.From the Hardcover edition.
作者簡介
JULIE GREGORY grew up in southern Ohio. She is now an expert writer and spokesperson on Munchausen by proxy and an advocatein MBP cases. A graduate student in psychiatry at Sheffield University, England, she currently lives in the United States.From the Hardcover edition.
