If you had an allergy so severe that accidentally eating a forbidden food could kill you in minutes--how would it change your life, and your relationship to food? For people with food-induced anaphylaxis, the severest form of allergic response, simply eating in restaurants, accepting invitations to dinner, going on overnight field trips, or traveling through foreign countries means facing one's mortality with every meal.
In this book, Mark S. Ferrara weaves history, science, and psychology to recount the story of his struggles with allergic asthma and a life-threatening allergy to nuts--and his difficulties living and working in the Far East and Near East--to show how the quest for self-actualization can lead to an acceptance of transience that borders on the mystical.
Along the way, he guides parents in keeping food-allergic children safe at home and at school and offers strategies that adolescents and adults may use to negotiate social spaces involving food. He explains how survivors of anaphylaxis can cope with the sometimes-irrational fears of food that follow that traumatic experience, so they may live happy, healthy, meaningful lives.
By:
Mark S. Ferrara
Imprint: Toplight Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 8mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9781476691435
ISBN 10: 1476691436
Pages: 163
Publication Date: 29 May 2023
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Acknowledgments Foreword by Peter F. Torrisi, M.D. Preface Chapter One: Dancing with Anaphylaxis Chapter Two: Departures into the Unknown Chapter Three: All Fears Great and Small Chapter Four: Upon Others, Our Lives Depend Conclusion: ""To Live Is to Live with Death All the Time"" Chapter Notes Works Cited Index"
Mark S. Ferrara is an associate professor of English at State University of New York.
