Mikaeru no kodō / Yuzuki Yūko cho.
ミカエルの鼓動 柚月裕子著.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yuzuki, Yūko, 1968- author.

柚月裕子, 1968- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Surgeons--Fiction.

Surgeons.

Surgical robots--Fiction.

Surgical robots.

Heart--Surgery--Fiction.

Heart.

Heart--Surgery.

Genre:

Fiction.

Medical fiction.

Physical Description:

467 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Tōkyō [Japan] : Bungeishunjū, 2021.

東京 : 文芸春秋, 2021.

Language Note:

In Japanese.

Summary:

"Saijo is a cardiac surgeon who promotes the surgery robot "Michael" at a university hospital. Maki is a genius doctor who completes an operation without "Michael" at a tremendous speed. At one point, the two confronted each other over the treatment for a boy with an incurable disease. Should they use cutting-edge medical treatment using "Michael" or open chest surgery using conventional surgical methods? Meanwhile, a young doctor who longed for Saijo died. A reporter trying to uncover the darkness of a university hospital approaches Saijo, saying, 'Michael is not an angel who saves people. It is a fraud.' " -- Cataloger's translation and interpretation of the Japanese synopsis

"大学病院で、手術支援ロボット「ミカエル」を推進する心臓外科医・西條。そこへ、ドイツ帰りの天才医師・真木が現れ、西條の目の前で「ミカエル」を用いない手術を、とてつもない速さで完遂する。あるとき、難病の少年の治療方針をめぐって、二人は対立。「ミカエル」を用いた最先端医療か、従来の術式による開胸手術か。そんな中、西條を慕っていた若手医師が、自らの命を絶った。大学病院の闇を暴こうとする記者は、「ミカエルは人を救う天使じゃない。偽物だ」と西條に迫る。天才心臓外科医の正義と葛藤を描く。" -- various websites

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9784163914428

4163914420

OCLC:

1274112908