{"product_id":"there-s-a-cure-for-this-9780143776857","title":"There's a Cure for this","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I don't know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking about how the tohu, once awarded, can never be taken back. There are few things in life that emphatic. Better not fuck it up.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eFrom award-winning writer Dr Emma Espiner comes this striking and profound debut memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eEncompassing whanau, love, death, '90s action movies and scarfie drinking, There's a cure for this is Espiner's own story, from a childhood spent shuttling between a 'purple lesbian state house and a series of man-alone rentals' to navigating parenthood on her own terms; from the quietly perceived inequities of her early life to hard-won revelations as a Maori medical student and junior doctor during the Covid-19 pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eClear, irreverent and beautiful, this book offers a candid and moving examination of what it means to be human when it seems like nothing less than superhuman will do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e'Deadly serious, darkly funny. An exploration of hurt and healing, love and loss, life and death, motherhood and medicine. Espiner's frank account of finding her vocation as a Maori doctor is so precise it cuts bone deep. A controlled and fearless narrator of the visceral facts of our shared humanity and the various kinds of suffering science is no match for - including, at times, her own - she takes us to the heart of what tears us apart and shows us how to put ourselves back together again.' - NOELLE McCARTHY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e'Gutsy, fierce, reflective. Dr Emma Espiner tells compelling stories about finding and then making her own path - as a modern Maori woman; a descendant, mother, friend and partner; a doctor of medicine. She does not skip over the twists and turns . . . her insights are both useful and at times provocative.' - DR HINEMOA ELDER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eChapter titles-\u003cbr\u003e\n Pepeha\u003cbr\u003e\n Sweet llamas in the night\u003cbr\u003e\n Return to Castle Wolfenstein\u003cbr\u003e\n He was the author of his own demise\u003cbr\u003e\n I am going to demonstrate empathy now\u003cbr\u003e\n Please explain the gaps in your CV\u003cbr\u003e\n Maori doctor\u003cbr\u003e\n Colonising the coloniser\u003cbr\u003e\n Don't plant a fruit tree over your uterus\u003cbr\u003e\n Tangi on State Highway 1\u003cbr\u003e\n 'E korero ana ahau i te reo Maori anake Mama'\u003cbr\u003e\n She had an epiphany on a beach in Northland\u003cbr\u003e\n The end of the beginning\u003cbr\u003e\n Practical skills for the zombie apocalypse\u003cbr\u003e\n How not to sit an exam\u003cbr\u003e\n Storytelling is the medicine\u003cbr\u003e\n Whakawatea\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emma Espiner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49128202731771,"sku":"9780143776857","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0806\/8176\/3067\/files\/9780143776857.jpg?v=1785746499","url":"https:\/\/aureliabooks.co.nz\/products\/there-s-a-cure-for-this-9780143776857","provider":"Aurelia Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}