A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1565847296 ISBN 13: 9781565847293

Publisher: New Press, 2002

Synopsis

Short fiction, poetry, and essays by such notable authors as Raymond Carver, Anton Chekhov, Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Wendell Berry, Robert Coles, Audre Lorde, Lewis Thomas, and Albert Schweitzer explore diverse facets of the medical profession, covering such topics as the nature of compassion, medical ethics, patient advocacy, and life and death.

About this title

Review:

Take notes. In the end, you will suffer alone. But at the beginning you suffer with a whole lot of other people.

About the Author:

Robert Coles is a psychiatrist and writer. Until recently, he was the James Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University. He is a co-editor, with Randy Testa, of A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology and Growing Up Poor: A Literary Anthology; a co-editor, with Albert LaFarge, of Minding the Store: Great Writing About Business, from Tolstoy to Now; and the author of Lives We Carry with Us: Profiles of Moral Courage, edited by David D. Cooper, all published by The New Press. His many books also include The Moral Intelligence of Children and Bruce Springsteen’s America: The People Listening, a Poet Singing. Coles received a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for his acclaimed five-volume Children of Crisis series, a MacArthur Award in 1981, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998, and the National Humanities Medal in 2001. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

Randy Testa has taught literature and medical ethics at Harvard and Dartmouth Medical Schools. He is an editor at Doubletake magazine and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1565847296
• ISBN 13: 9781565847293
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 329
• Editor: Coles M D Robert, Testa Randy