Final exam : a surgeon's reflections on mortality
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 267, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm
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Mancos Library District - NONFICTION | 617.092 CHE | On Shelf |
Rampart Library District - Woodland Park - NONFICTION | 617.092 Che | On Shelf |
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LC Subjects
Attitude to Death.
Biography.
Chen, Pauline W., -- 1964-
Chen, Pauline W., -- 1964-
Death -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Death.
Surgeons -- Biography.
Surgery -- Personal Narratives.
Terminal Care -- ethics -- Personal Narratives.
Terminal care -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Terminal Care -- psychology -- Personal Narratives.
Transplantation -- Personal Narratives.
Biography.
Chen, Pauline W., -- 1964-
Chen, Pauline W., -- 1964-
Death -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Death.
Surgeons -- Biography.
Surgery -- Personal Narratives.
Terminal Care -- ethics -- Personal Narratives.
Terminal care -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Terminal Care -- psychology -- Personal Narratives.
Transplantation -- Personal Narratives.
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251-268]).
Description
A brilliant young transplant surgeon brings moral intensity and narrative drama to the most powerful and vexing questions of medicine and the human condition. When Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives--what she did not count on was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, Chen found herself wrestling with medicine's most profound paradox, that a profession premised on caring for the ill also systematically depersonalizes dying. Over the course of her education, training, and practice, she grappled at strikingly close range with the problem of mortality, struggling to reconcile the lessons of her training with her innate knowledge of shared humanity, and to separate her ideas about healing from her fierce desire to cure. Her rumination on how doctors negotiate the ineluctable fact of death becomes, in the end, a provocative questioning of how we should live.--From publisher description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Chen, P. W. (2007). Final exam: a surgeon's reflections on mortality (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Chen, Pauline W., 1964-. 2007. Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections On Mortality. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Chen, Pauline W., 1964-. Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections On Mortality Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Chen, Pauline W. Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections On Mortality First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
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