A pandemic in residence : essays from a Detroit hospital / Selina Mahmood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mahmood, Selina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mahmood, Selina.

COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects.

COVID-19 (Disease).

Quarantine--Psychological aspects.

Quarantine.

COVID-19 (Disease)--Psychological aspects.

Epidemics--Social aspects.

Epidemics.

Psychological aspects.

Detroit (Mich.).

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

135 pages ; 18 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cleveland, Ohio : Belt Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Selina Mahmood--in the middle of the first year of her neurology residency--found scraps of time between grueling shifts to write. The resulting A Pandemic in Residence: Essays from a Detroit Hospital is her personal and meticulous document of an unprecedented year in medicine, and the debut of a young and uncommon talent. In the tradition of writers like Oliver Sacks and Paul Kalanithi, Dr. Mahmood takes the science of neurology and spins it into poetry, exploring theories of the mind, Pakistani-American identity, immigration, family, the history of medicine, and, of course, the challenges of becoming a physician in the midst of a global health crisis. Skipping nimbly across continents and drawing inspiration from an array of sources ranging from Thomas Edison to Yuval Harari to Beyoncé, she has with this collection crafted an elegant, incisive, utterly original investigation into our universal search for meaning. -- Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: MARCH

Testing

Human

O, Rona

Sleep

APRIL

Ventilators and Electricity

Plus, One

The Case of the Missing Feather

The Things We Leave Behind

MAY

Mortician

Holes in the Brain

Creatures

Paneraff

May

JUNE, AND ONWARD

The Dream of a Ridiculous Woman

Post-Colonial

Crawl Me a Sliced.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-132).

ISBN:

9781948742931

1948742934

OCLC:

1180970530