Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery

Selzer, Richard

ISBN 10: 0156004003 / ISBN 13: 9780156004008

Published by Harcourt Brace, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156004003
• ISBN 13: 9780156004008
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Richard Selzer (1928-2016) was for many years a surgeon practicing in New Haven, Connecticut, where he was also on the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine. He was born in Troy, New York, was graduated from Union College and Albany Medical College, and from the Surgical Training Program of Yale University. In 1975 he won the National Magazine Award for his essays on medicine. Dr. Selzer's books include Letters to a Young Doctor, Mortal Lessons, Down from Troy, Imagine a Woman and Other Tales, and Raising the Dead.