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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN
- 0393330494
- EAN
- 9780393330496
- Manufacturer
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Brand
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Binding
- TP
- Book Title
- When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurger
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393330494
ISBN-13
9780393330496
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60294802
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Publication Name
When the Air Hits Your Brain : Tales from Neurosurgery
Language
English
Subject
Surgery / General, Surgery / Neurosurgery
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Medical
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-271233
Reviews
Dr. Frank Vertosick provides an amusing, insightful and honest inside view of the training of the neurosurgeon. This highly readable account of daily life on the wards shows all the humility, fortitude, and humanity that genuinely underlies this sometimes not well-understood but genuinely wonderful profession., By turns comic and tragic, this memoir...is a must-read for neurosurgeons but also of interest to most clinicians., The current and, no doubt, game-changing Complete Short Stories may not do for Purdy what Cheever's Collected Stories did for him but it will surely shake things up radically.... That roiling sound you hear off in the distance is James Purdy, at long last, joining the mainstream., This is a wonderful book about the surgeon's art--funny, scary, beautifully observed, and deeply humane., At last we have this edition of stories through which we can celebrate his talent. And through which newcomers can have the opportunity to come to know him and the fictional world that he inhabits.... The greatest beauty of this collection is that from first to last--from the juvenilia (which, admittedly, gives only a glimpse of what is to come) to his final tale, the brief and wry Adeline written when he was 92--James Purdy captivates. And that is more than reason enough to celebrate this bravura edition., Writing with humor and compassion, but without sentimentality, Vertosick shows us that neurosurgeons, those gods of the operating room, are humans, too., When the Air Hits Your Brain lets you feel the pain, grief and joy of practicing medicine. This book should be read by every medical student, doctor and present or potential patient. In other words, by all of us., The late (1914-2009) fiction writer, whose work sharply divided critical opinion from the start, receives his due with this vast but fast-moving collection of short stories.... A comprehensive overview of Purdy's themes and--yes--obsessions.
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
617.4/8
Synopsis
"Dramatic, moving, and utterly fascinating." -- New York Times Book Review The story of one man's evolution from naïve and ambitious young intern to world-class neurosurgeon. With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia, and a minister with a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his skull. Told through intimate portraits of Vertosick's patients and unsparing yet fascinatingly detailed descriptions of surgical procedures, When the Air Hits Your Brain --the culmination of decades spent struggling to learn an unforgiving craft--illuminates both the mysteries of the mind and the realities of the operating room., "Dramatic, moving, and utterly fascinating."--"New York Times Book Review" With poignant insight and humor, When the Air Hits Your Brain chronicles one man's evolution from nave and ambitious young intern to world-class neurosurgeon. In electrifying detail, Frank Vertosick Jr. describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia, and a minister with a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his skull. Told through intimate portraits of Vertosick's patients and unsparing yet fascinatingly detailed descriptions of surgical procedures, "When the Air Hits Your Brain"--the culmination of decades spent struggling to learn an unforgiving craft--illuminates both the mysteries of the mind and the realities of the operating room., With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia, and a minister with a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his skull. Told through intimate portraits of Vertosick's patients and unsparing yet fascinatingly detailed descriptions of surgical procedures, When the Air Hits Your Brain --the culmination of decades spent struggling to learn an unforgiving craft--illuminates both the mysteries of the mind and the realities of the operating room., "Dramatic, moving, and utterly fascinating." --New York Times Book Review The story of one man's evolution from naïve and ambitious young intern to world-class neurosurgeon.
LC Classification Number
RD593
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