Contemporary physician-authors : exploring the insights of doctors who write /
This book examines the phenomenon of physician-authors. Focusing on the books that contemporary doctors write "the stories that they tell" as the contributors critically engage with their work. A key reference for all students and scholars of the medical and health humanities, the book wil...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2022].
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| Series: | Routledge advances in the medical humanities.
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Table of Contents:
- Two traditional representatives. Richard Selzer : three troubling tales of physicians' peculiar behavior / Tony Miksanek
- Oliver Sacks : a kind of reminiscence / Tom Koch
- Three contemporary favorites. Perri Klass : books are like stethoscopes / Seema Yasmin
- Abraham Verghese : the power of storytelling / Kaarkuzhali Babu Krishnamurthy
- Atul Gawande : doctoring, dying, and the pursuit of 'better" / Thomas D. Harter
- Medicine, meaning, and identity. Danielle Ofri : offering lessons for all / Susan Stagno
- Paul Kalanithi : sometimes, they break
- craft as a window / Lise Saffran
- Joanna Cannon : leaving medicine to pursue a physician's calling / Abraham M. Nussbaum
- Damon Tweedy : stories on being Black, sick, and marginalized / Keisha Ray
- Fady Joudah : an exploration of borders and boundaries / Andrew Childress
- Louise Aronson : using facts and stories to improve medical care for older adults / Craig M. Klugman
- Marc Agronin : into the heart of growing old / Jill Yamasaki
- Alternative models. David Watts and Frank Huyler : a tale of two patients / David Elkin
- Siddhartha Mukherjee : tending and extending
- the long and short of Siddhartha Mukherjee / Sandhya Shetty
- Arthur Kleinman : professional caregiving narratives become personal / Carol Levine.