Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery
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Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery by Richard Selzer
A surgeon at the Yale Medical Center writes of the craft and practice of the operating room, blending narrative clinical material with dramatic and metaphoric tableaux of the human body.
Richard Selzer is a former surgeon and professor at the Yale School of Medicine. He is also the author of many books of short stories and essays, including Rituals of Surgery; Confessions of a Knife; The Exact Location of the Soul; and Knife Song Korea: A Novel, also published by SUNY Press. He has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Magazine Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the American Medical Writers Award. He lives in New Haven. Peter Josyph is a writer, painter, actor, and filmmaker. He is author of Liberty Street: Encounters at Ground Zero; What One Man Said to Another: Talks with Richard Selzer; and The Wounded River: The Civil War Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, M.D., which was a New York Times Notable Book in 1993. He directed the award-winning documentary Liberty Street: Alive at Ground Zero. He lives on Long Island.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780156004008 |
| ISBN 10 | 0156004003 |
| Title | Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery |
| Author | Richard Selzer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harcourt Brace |
| Year published | 1996-04-15 |
| Number of pages | 220 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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