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Mortal lessons : notes on the art of surgery / Richard Selzer.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Selzer, Richard, 1928-2016.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Surgery.
- General Surgery.
- Medical Subjects:
- General Surgery.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 219 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon and Schuster, [1976]
- Contents:
- I. The art of surgery
- The exact location of the soul
- The surgeon as priest
- Lessons from the art
- II. The body
- Bone
- Liver
- Stone
- The knife
- Skin
- The belly
- The corpse
- III. Essays
- Bald!
- Smoking
- Abortion
- The twelve spheres
- IV. Down from Troy
- Down from Troy
- Car sickness
- Longfellow, Virgil and me
- Jacob Street
- Birdwatching.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Selzer, Richard, 1928- Mortal lessons.
- ISBN:
- 0671223569
- 9780671223564
- OCLC:
- 2346825
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