An unspoken art : profiles of veterinary life / Lee Gutkind.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gutkind, Lee, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Veterinarians--United States.

Veterinarians.

Veterinary medicine--United States.

Veterinary medicine.

Veterinary medicine--Vocational guidance--United States.

Veterinary medicine--Vocational guidance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Open Road Integrated Media, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the tradition of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small, An Unspoken Art is Lee Gutkind's captivating look at the lives of veterinarians, from the zoos to the farmLee Gutkind, the godfather of creative nonfiction, explores with warmth and sincerity the worlds of modern-day veterinarians-from practitioners operating on Manhattan's Upper East Side to those working knee deep in mud in the English countryside. Gutkind profiles the men and women who have devoted their lives to the care of animals, almost all treating their patients with more humanity and compassion than physicians in huma

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: ""We Lay Our Hands Down upon Them""; Doing ""God''s Work""; Manhattan Veterinarian; Rescue Fantasy; Office Hours; A Way of Life; VHUP; ""Lady Comes into My Office""; New Bolton; Stallion Ring; Invasive Procedures; The Quitter; Difficult Decisions; Not Just an Ordinary Veterinary School Vet; Reindeer with a Hernia; Aquazoo; Primates

and Other Warriors; Tuskectomy; Fecalas Lizardas

and Other Funny Jokes; Baby-sitting the Bongo; Icy; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z; Acknowledgments

About the AuthorCopyright

Notes:

"Portions of this book were first published in slightly different forms in Prairie schooner and The crab orchard review and in The art of nonfiction: writing and selling the literature of reality, published by John Wiley & Sons"--Title page verso.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781480471351

1480471356

OCLC:

892801814