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Mortal lessons : notes on the art of surgery
- Title
- Mortal lessons : notes on the art of surgery / Richard Selzer.
- Author
- Selzer, Richard, 1928-2016.
- Publication
- New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1976.
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- Description
- 219 p. : ill.; 22 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Essay.
- Note
- Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.
- Contents
- I. The art of surgery -- The exact location of the soul -- The surgeon as priest -- Lessons from the art -- II. The body -- Bone -- Liver -- Stone -- The knife -- Skin -- The belly -- The corpse -- III. Essays -- Bald! -- Smoking -- Abortion -- The twelve spheres -- IV. Down from Troy -- Down from Troy -- Car sickness -- Longfellow, Virgil and me -- Jacob Street -- Birdwatching.
- ISBN
- 0671223569
- LCCN
- 76025481
- OCLC
- 2346825
- ocm02346825
- SCSB-4676152
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries