TY  - BOOK
AU  - Raven,Charlotte
TI  - Patient 1
SN  - 9781787332331 (hbk.) :
AV  - RC394.H85 
U1  - 616.851 RAV 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Jonathan Cape
KW  - Raven, Charlotte
KW  - Huntington's disease
KW  - Patients
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Health and Fitness
KW  - eflch
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Autobiography: science, technology & medicine
KW  - thema
KW  - Memoirs
KW  - Illness & addiction: social aspects
KW  - Doctor/patient relationship
KW  - Clinical & internal medicine
N2  - Charlotte Raven had never heard of Huntington's Disease when, in her mid-thirties, she discovered that her father was suffering from the illness. Life for her and her young family would never be the same again. 'Patient 1' is her brutally candid account of coming to terms with this inherited neurodegenerative disease, which can manifest at any time in life for people who carry the faulty gene. As the illness began to take hold of Raven's body, mind and memory, she began to write. She wrote like her life depended on it - and in many ways she believed it did. Frank and fearless, 'Patient 1' is an act of self-preservation and a kind of reckoning: with the illness, with the person she once was, with the person she is now
ER  -