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9781565848498
Life in Medicine A Literary Anthology
by Coles, Robert, Testa, Randy, O'Donnell, Joseph
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- ISBN-13: 9781565848498
- ISBN: 1565848497
- Publication Date: 2003
- Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
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A Life in Medicine collects stories, poems, and essays by and for those in the healing profession who are struggling to keep up with the science while staying true to the humanitarian goals at the heart of their work. Described as "an admirably complete look at the best recent writing on medicine" by the Detroit Free Press, the book includes well-known authors such as William Carlos Williams. Wendell Berry, Anne Fadiman, Lorrie Moore, and Walt Whitman, as well as writing from doctors, nurses, practitioners, and patients. Provocative and moving contributions address issues of life and death, cancer and AIDS, seizures and psychosis, advocacy and anatomy, from both ends of the stethoscope.Coles, Robert is the author of 'Life in Medicine A Literary Anthology', published 2003 under ISBN 9781565848498 and ISBN 1565848497.
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