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A Richard Selzer Reader
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Author : Kevin Kerrane
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-07-31
A Richard Selzer Reader written by Kevin Kerrane and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Richard Selzer Reader: Blood and Ink is a career-spanning collection, including major short stories and essays by the renowned doctor-author. In the 1960s, while practicing as a general surgeon and teaching surgery at the Yale School of Medicine, Richard Selzer began publishing unique creative work in magazines such as Harper’s and Esquire. By 1985, when he retired as a physician to devote himself completely to writing, Selzer was already recognized as a pioneer in the field of medical humanities. When he died in 2016, as the author of 13 books, his influence was acknowledged by a younger generation of doctor-writers like Abraham Verghese and Atul Gawande. Selzer’s unusual style fuses scientific and poetic language. Drawing on favorite readings, from the King James Bible to the tales of Edgar Allen Poe, he used this style to convey a sense of awe at the beauty and complexity of the human body, even in the midst of suffering. While describing himself as an atheist, Selzer always searched for “sacramental” moments of courtesy, courage, and grace in medical encounters. Because he often looked critically at the failure of doctors to regard the full humanity of their patients, Selzer’s work has become required reading in many medical training programs. A Richard Selzer Reader includesseveral of the author’s most famous essays and stories, as well as two dozen selections that have not been collected in his previous books. Chronologically, the material ranges from apprenticeship stories (as far back as a high-school composition) to two odd self-portraits that remained unpublished at the time of Selzer’s death.Topically, the material ranges from meditations on the body, and on human mortality, to reflections on both medicine and writing as serious vocations. Along the way, Selzer celebrates the work of other doctor-writers, like Thomas Browne and Anton Chekhov, and in a series of previously unpublished diary entries he discusses the joys of nature, art, and family as bulwarks against the difficulties of growing old.
A Richard Selzer Reader
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Author : Richard Selzer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
A Richard Selzer Reader written by Richard Selzer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the 1960s, while practicing as a general surgeon and teaching surgery at the Yale School of Medicine, Richard Selzer began publishing unique creative work in magazines such as Harper's and Esquire. This volume is a definitive collection of essays, stories, public lectures, and final diary entries by the renowned surgeon and imaginative writer. Each of the book's nine topical sections is prefaced by an overview of themes and patterns in Selzer's work.
Letters To A Young Doctor
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Author : Richard Selzer
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 1996-04-15
Letters To A Young Doctor written by Richard Selzer and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-15 with Medical categories.
A timeless collection of advice, operating-room wisdom, and reflections on the practice of medicine, from the “best of the writing surgeons” (Chicago Tribune). “Richard Selzer does for medicine what Jacques Cousteau does for the sea,” raved The New York Times of this extraordinary collection. “He transports the reader to a world that most of us never see, a world that is vivid and powerful, often overwhelming, occasionally fantastic.” In this collection of highly candid, insightful, and unexpectedly humorous essays, the erstwhile surgeon turned Yale School of Medicine professor addresses both the brutality and the beauty of a profession in which saving and losing lives is all in a day’s work. A number of these pieces take the form of letters offering counsel to aspiring physicians. Featuring wry and witty observations on matters of life and death, medical ethics, and the awesome responsibilities of being a surgeon, Letters to a Young Doctor should be required reading for all medical students—and anyone interested in the endless miracle that is the human body. "No one writes about the practice of medicine with Selzer's unique combination of mystery and wonder,” observed the Los Angeles Times, while The New York Times praised Selzer’s “marvelous insight and potent imagery” for making “his tales of surgery and medicine both works of art and splendid tools of instruction.”
Richard Selzer And The Rhetoric Of Surgery
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Author : Charles M. Anderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Richard Selzer And The Rhetoric Of Surgery written by Charles M. Anderson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Literature and medicine categories.
Vacaciones con ingenio es una serie de tres cuadernos de vacaciones dirigidos a niños de 6 a 12 años. Cada uno propone una serie de juegos presentados en forma de retos, destinados a desarrollar la capacidad para resolver problemas y con ello potenciar la inteligencia. Juegos divertidos, parecidos a los pasatiempos, pero que están creados para desarrollar algunas de las habilidades más importantes de la mente a través de seis categorías: números, letras, formas, observación, memoria y lógica.
The Doctor Stories
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Author : Richard Selzer
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 1998
The Doctor Stories written by Richard Selzer and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Fiction categories.
Selzer's selection of his own short stories, culled from three decades of writing, includes two new stories and an Introduction detailing his literary beginnings.
Raising The Dead
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Author : Richard Selzer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Raising The Dead written by Richard Selzer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Medical categories.
The fragility of health and robustness of imagination merge when a seemingly healthy man's legs collapse suddenly beneath him. Here, Richard Selzer relives his experiences of Legionnaire's Disease, allowing the reader a glimpse into his delirium as he skates the line between life and death.
Letters To A Best Friend
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Author : Richard Selzer
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2009-07-23
Letters To A Best Friend written by Richard Selzer and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-23 with Literary Collections categories.
A lively and intimate selection of letters on life, literature, and art from one of America’s finest prose stylists.
Reading Essays
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Author : G. Douglas Atkins
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2010-01-25
Reading Essays written by G. Douglas Atkins and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Approaches abound to help us beneficially, enjoyably read fiction, poetry, and drama. Here, for the first time, is a book that aims to do the same for the essay. G. Douglas Atkins performs sustained readings of more than twenty-five major essays, explaining how we can appreciate and understand what this currently resurgent literary form reveals about the “art of living.” Atkins’s readings cover a wide spectrum of writers in the English language--and his readings are themselves essays, gracefully written, engaged, and engaging. Atkins starts with the earliest British practitioners of the form, including Francis Bacon, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, and Samuel Johnson. Transcendentalist writers Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are included, as are works by Americans James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and E. B. White. Atkins also provides readings of a number of contemporary essayists, among them Annie Dillard, Scott Russell Sanders, and Cynthia Ozick. Many of the readings are of essays that Atkins has used successfully in the classroom, with undergraduate and graduate students, for many years. In his introduction Atkins offers practical advice on the specific demands essays make and the unique opportunities they offer, especially for college courses. The book ends with a note on the writing of essays, furthering the author’s contention that reading should not be separated from writing. Reading Essays continues in the tradition of such definitive texts as Understanding Poetry and Understanding Fiction. Throughout, Atkins reveals the joy, delight, grace, freedom, and wisdom of “the glorious essay.”
The Exact Location Of The Soul
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Author : Richard Selzer
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2002-03-06
The Exact Location Of The Soul written by Richard Selzer and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-06 with Medical categories.
Richard Selzer selects from his own classic essays, culled from three decades of writing. Published along with his favorites are five new essays, including "Phantom Vision" and "Braindeath," and an introduction detailing the making of this virtuoso doctor/writer. Compassionate, moving and perversely funny, Richard Selzer's essays intimately connect us with profound questions of life and death.
Mortal Lessons
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Author : Richard Selzer
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 1996-04-15
Mortal Lessons written by Richard Selzer and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-15 with Medical categories.
A surgeon shares true stories of life, death, and the human body in an essay collection that “will nail you to your chair” (Saturday Review). With settings ranging from the operating theater to a Korean ambulance, and topics as varied as the disposition of a corpse and the author’s own childhood, these nineteen captivating, wry, and intimate vignettes offer a poignant examination of health, humanity, and, of course, mortality. Sometimes tragic, sometimes humorous, the essays offer a physician’s viewpoint that goes beyond the medical to also consider the most meaningful issues and questions we face, whether as doctors or patients, cared for or caregiver. Praised by Kirkus Reviews as “an impressive display of knowledge and art, magic and mystery,” Mortal Lessons is a classic reflection on the human body and the human experience, and will resonate with readers for generations to come.