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Contemporary physician-authors : exploring the insights of doctors who write / edited by Nathan Carlin.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Carlin, Nathan, editor.
Taylor & Francis eBooks.
Series:
Routledge advances in the medical humanities
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Physicians as authors.
Literature and medicine.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 260 pages).
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Place of Publication:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
System Details:
text file
Biography/History:
Nathan Carlin is Professor in the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA, where he holds the Samuel Karff Chair.
Contents:
Two traditional representatives. Richard Selzer : three troubling tales of physicians' peculiar behavior / Tony Miksanek
Oliver Sacks : a kind of reminiscence / Tom Koch
Three contemporary favorites. Perri Klass : books are like stethoscopes / Seema Yasmin
Abraham Verghese : the power of storytelling / Kaarkuzhali Babu Krishnamurthy
Atul Gawande : doctoring, dying, and the pursuit of 'better" / Thomas D. Harter
Medicine, meaning, and identity. Danielle Ofri : offering lessons for all / Susan Stagno
Paul Kalanithi : sometimes, they break
craft as a window / Lise Saffran
Joanna Cannon : leaving medicine to pursue a physician's calling / Abraham M. Nussbaum
Damon Tweedy : stories on being Black, sick, and marginalized / Keisha Ray
Fady Joudah : an exploration of borders and boundaries / Andrew Childress
Louise Aronson : using facts and stories to improve medical care for older adults / Craig M. Klugman
Marc Agronin : into the heart of growing old / Jill Yamasaki
Alternative models. David Watts and Frank Huyler : a tale of two patients / David Elkin
Siddhartha Mukherjee : tending and extending
the long and short of Siddhartha Mukherjee / Sandhya Shetty
Arthur Kleinman : professional caregiving narratives become personal / Carol Levine.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 16, 2021).
Other Format:
Print version: Contemporary physician-authors
ISBN:
9781003079712
1003079717
9781000474817
100047481X
9781000474862
1000474860
Publisher Number:
40030861016
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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