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Contemporary Physician-Authors: Exploring the Insights of Doctors Who Write

By Nathan Carlin (Editor)
Hardcover
$233.99
By Nathan Carlin (Editor)
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This book examines the phenomenon of physician-authors. Focusing on the books that contemporary doctors write--the stories that they tell--with contributors critically engaging their work.

A selection of original chapters from leading scholars in medical and health humanities analyze the literary output of doctors, including Oliver Sacks, Danielle Ofri, Atul Gawande, Louise Aronson, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Abraham Verghese. Discussing issues of moral meaning in the works of contemporary d...

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