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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Priscilla Song

Titel

INTRODUCTION

Ist Teil von

• Biomedical Odysseys, 2017, p.1

Ort / Verlag

Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• LIGHTS BLAZING AND SIRENS SCREAMING, the honor convoy of fire engines and ambulances launched Jeff Dunn¹ on his transnational quest for medical treatment. The thirty-three-year-old Colorado firefighter and his wife, Cyrilla, were bound for China’s capital city, leaving their toddler son in safekeeping as they embarked on their biomedical odyssey. Jeff had been diagnosed a year earlier with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the same disease that had terminated the lives of American baseball star Lou Gehrig and allegedly China’s revolutionary leader Mao Zedong.² ALS was a death sentence inexorably taking away the firefighter’s ability to walk, talk, and ultimately breathe.