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"Our intent was to provide a book that would let the everyday practitioner understand that he or she had stories to tell, roads to walk, pictures to paint, tunes to play-and that there is life outside, even after, medicine."-from the prefaceThis book examines the lives of twenty-seven phys...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Curnen, Mary McCrea, Spiro, Howard M. (Howard Marget), 1924-, St. James, Deborah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword / Duffy, Thomas P.
  • Preface / Curnen, Mary G. McCrea
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. The Visual Arts
  • Sir Roy Calne: Why I Paint
  • Ernest Craige: Making the Scene
  • Andrea M. Baldeck: Life through the Lens
  • Mark H. Swartz: Letting Colors Dance
  • Barbara Young: In the Mind's Eye
  • Wayne O. South wick: From Bone to Stone
  • Part 2. Music
  • James J. Cerda: In the Key of Sea
  • Alice Levine: The Singing Endocrinologist
  • Eli Newberger: Medicine of the Tuba
  • F. Norman Vickers: Jazzdoc
  • Elaine L. Bearer: Self-Confidence under Siege
  • Part 3. Literature
  • Rafael Campo: A Prescription for Poetry
  • Michael A. LaCombe: Getting Famous
  • Carlo Levi: An Antifascist Physician, by Harvey Mandell
  • Gertrude Stein: Gertrude Stein and the Ctenophore, by Gerald Weissmann
  • Part 4. Astronautics
  • William Thornton: The Sky's No Limit
  • Part 5. The Spiritual Life
  • Ray A. Hammond and Gloria E. White-Hammond: A Ministry of Healing, with Sheila Lennon
  • Alan C. Mermann: Looking for the Red Line
  • John L. Young: Priest in the Prison
  • Part 6. Government and University
  • David M. Albala: Backpacking to the Capital
  • Andrew W. Nichols: A Doctor in the House
  • Nils Oker-Blom: Carving a Niche, in Cells and Bronze, by Teodora Oker-Blom
  • Part 7. Collecting
  • Harold L. Osher: Afield with Old Maps
  • Ira L. Rezak: Mingling Medicine and Medals
  • Part 8. Fun and Games
  • George W. Naumburg, Jr.: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way...
  • A. C. Gilbert: Tycoon of Toys, by Jonathan A. Thomas
  • Contributors