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