Moonwalkers by Mark Greenwood
Poetry. Co-winner of the competition for the 2014 Outriders Poetry Program selection, this work is Schepers' first published book of poetry. He describes it as a series of prose poems, elegies in name, that interrogates scientific and medical jargon. Loosely following the hospitalization of a dying patient, the book tracks the bombardment of this specialized language keeping the patient, rather than the disease, at bay.Schepers finds the dying in a mesh of technologies, administrative structures, and small and large betrayals of the body. His elegies are for these things that stand around a single, blazing fact. They are unsparing. This is moving.--Joe Hall
A BUNDLE OF CAREFUL COMPROMISES is both hilarious and heartbreaking. it took my breath away.--kathryn l. pringle;
In this cancer journal of fifty- one wit-strewn elegies to everything from bedpans to bed sores, abstraction comes to the aid of the entrapped body through the doors of mathematics, medical terminology and odd alignments of facts. The book's mordant, searching struggle against nullity is indeed a collection of 'careful compromises' between the body and its attackers, with the loser somehow prevailing through the amazements of language.--Ann Goldsmith
Mark Greenwood, BDS, MB ChB, MDS, PhD, FDSRCS, FRCS (England and Edinburgh), FRCS (OMFS), FHEA, is Consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery; Clinical Head of Oral and Maxillofacial Sciences and Honorary Clinical Professor of Medical Education in Dentistry at Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Hospitals Foundation Trust and Newcastle University, UK. From 2013 to 2015 he was Co-Clinical Director for the Dental Directorate in Newcastle. His main interests are the academic aspects of oral and maxillofacial surgery and the interface between medicine and dentistry. Prof. Greenwood has a special interest in undergraduate medical education in Dentistry, with a focus on teaching of core principles and development of clinical observational skills. He has authored a number of books including former editions of A Clinical Guide to General Medicine and Surgery for Dental Practitioners (BDJ Books).
John Meechan was Senior Lecturer, Clinical Teaching Lead and Honorary Consultant in Oral Surgery at Newcastle University and the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.He was the training programme director for Oral Surgery in Newcastle and chaired the Intercollegiate Surgical Fellowship Examination Board for Oral Surgery in the U.K.
He is the recipient of a Distinguished Scientist Award from the International Association for Dental Research, a King James IV Professorship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the Charles Tomes medal from the Royal College of Surgeons of England and has won the Medical Futures Innovations award for Dental and Oral Health.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780143793557 |
| ISBN 10 | 0143793551 |
| Title | Moonwalkers |
| Author | Mark Greenwood |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Year published | 2019-05-07 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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