Literature and Medicine Series – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Literature and Medicine Series. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
4 produkter
Leaving Tinkertown
Häftad, 2013
293 kr
Lägg i varukorg
When Tanya Ward Goodman came home to New Mexico to visit her dad at the end of 1996, he was fifty-five years old and just beginning to show symptoms of the Alzheimer’s disease that would kill him six years later. Early onset dementia is a shock and a challenge to every family, but the Wards were …
La Clinica
A Doctor's Journey Across Borders
Häftad, 2010
231 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In 1972 David Sklar left in his senior year of college to volunteer at a community clinic in rural Mexico. The experience challenged him and, ultimately, molded him into a skilled emergency physician. Years later, in the midst of intense professional and personal stress - emergency room traumas and …
Beyond Words
Illness and the Limits of Expression
Häftad, 2013
321 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Published accounts of illness and disability often emphasise hope and positive thinking: the woman who still looked beautiful after losing her hair, the man who ran five miles a day during chemotherapy. This acclaimed examination of the genre of the illness narrative questions that upbeat approach. …
Young Neurosurgeon
Lessons from My Patients
Häftad, 2013
260 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In the ER, the OR, and in the waiting room where the doctors deliver heart stopping news to the families of their patients, a neurosurgeon’s apprenticeship is arduous. This memoir of the day-to-day experiences of a resident in neurosurgery at one of the nation’s busiest trauma centers provides a …
