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The blood of strangers : stories from emergency medicine / Frank Huyler.
LIBRA - Special RC87 .H975 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huyler, Frank, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emergency medicine--Popular works.
- Emergency medicine.
- Hospitals--Emergency services--Popular works.
- Hospitals.
- Emergency Medicine.
- Hospitals--Emergency services.
- Medical Subjects:
- Emergency Medicine.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x. 160 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Owl edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Henry Holt, 2000.
- Summary:
- Hailed by The Boston Globe as "a compact, faceted gem that shines with intelligence," this stunning collection offers a startling and moving look at people whose lives are on the line and the men and women who try to keep them from crossing it. These twenty-eight vignettes seamlessly juxtapose visceral portrayals of life-and-death medical situations with lyrical meditations on the world of medicine and the world at large.
- Contents:
- The Unknown Assailant 3
- Prelude 11
- Through the Dark, Softly 15
- Faith 21
- Black Bag 27
- A Good Scar 35
- The Engineer in the Desert 37
- The Invitation 41
- Sunday Morning 47
- The Short Arm of Chromosome 4 51
- Needle 55
- The Dead Lake 59
- The Prisoner 69
- Numbers and Voices 73
- A Difference of Opinion 79
- The Bleeding Girl 85
- I'm Driving 91
- Burn 99
- The Secret 105
- Speaking in Tongues 109
- Power 119
- Jaw 121
- The Virgin 127
- Sugar 133
- Liar 139
- The Bee Sting 145
- The House in the Wilderness 153
- Time 157.
- Notes:
- Previously published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999.
- ISBN:
- 0805065970
- 9780805065978
- OCLC:
- 43607418
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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