Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of SurgeryHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1996 - 220 עמודים In this collection of nineteen unforgettable essays, Dr. Richard Selzer describes unsparingly the surgeon's art, opening up the body to view, one part at a time. Both moving and perversely funny, Mortal Lessons is an established classic that considers not only the workings and misworkings of the human body, but also the meaning of life and death. And although Dr. Selzer's dark humor makes the burgeoning tumors and ulcerations of his essays more bearable, he is frank about the mysterious and dreaded inevitable - the sometime surprise, as he calls it, at the center of surgery: death. Behind his traditional "surgeon's arrogance" the reader will find endearing self-mockery, a very real empathy for his patients, and the ready suggestion that even the surgeon is still very small when he stands before nature. |
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THE BODY | 39 |
Liver | 62 |
The Belly | 116 |
Bald | 143 |
Smoking | 149 |
Longfellow Virgil and | 198 |
Jacob Street | 206 |
Picture Credits | 219 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery <span dir=ltr>Richard Selzer</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 1976 |
Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery <span dir=ltr>Richard Selzer</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 1996 |
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