The Neutral Spirit: A Portrait of Alcohol
Published by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1960
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books
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Octavo in tan illus jacket; 151 pages; 21 cm. Appeared originally, for the most part, in the New Yorker. "Clarence Berton Rouech?, Jr. (1910 ? 1994) was an American medical writer who wrote for The New Yorker magazine for almost fifty years. He also wrote twenty books, including Eleven Blue Men (1954), The Incurable Wound (1958), Feral (1974), and The Medical Detectives (1980). An article he wrote for The New Yorker was made into the 1956 film Bigger Than Life, and many of the medical mysteries on the television show House were inspired by Rouech?'s writings. . In 1944, he was hired as a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. In 1946, "The Annals of Medicine" department of the magazine was created for him. "The Annals of Medicine" is a series about medical detection and the fight against different diseases. An article he wrote for The New Yorker, titled "Ten Feet Tall", was made into a 1956 film called Bigger Than Life, which stars James Mason. The article and film are about the negative side effects of the drug cortisone. Rouech? remained a staff writer for The New Yorker until his death, a span of about fifty years. In addition to writing for The New Yorker, he also wrote twenty books. The books are mostly pieces of medical writing, focused on epidemiology, with elements of mystery and detective work. He also wrote several suspense novels, these include Black Weather (1945), The Last Enemy (1956), Feral (1974), and Fago (1977). Rouech?'s writings, especially his book The Medical Detectives (1980), inspired in part the television show House, which premiered in 2004 on the Fox network. Many of the medical cases in the show are directly inspired by real-life cases in The Medical Detectives. His 1954 book Eleven Blue Men, which was a collection of pieces he had written for The New Yorker, was awarded a Raven by the Mystery Writers of America. In 1982, he received an Academy Award of The American Academy of Arts and Letters for literature. He also received awards from the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Kansas City Academy of Medicine, the American Medical Writers Association, and the Lasker Foundation."Drinking of alcoholic beverages. Alcoholic beverages. Alcoholism. Alcoholic Beverages Alcoholism Alcohol Drinking Alcool -- Effets physiologiques. Consommation d'alcool. Boissons alcoolis?es. Alcoolisme. alcoholism. Alcoholism Alcoholic beverages Alcohol -- Physiological effect Drinking of alcoholic beverages. Fine in near fine jacket in archival mylar.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Neutral Spirit: A Portrait of Alcohol
- Author
- Rouech?, Berton
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, and Company, Boston
- Publication year
- 1960
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First edition, stated.
- Seller catalogs
- English, Health, Medicine & Healing Arts
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