The orange wire problem and other tales from the doctor's office / David Watts.

  • Watts, H. David.
Date:
[2009], ©2009
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Publication/Creation

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

xvii, 186 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents

Preface: what you might expect to find here -- Facts and lies -- The orange wire problem -- Brain damage -- Let eagles come -- The chart in the window -- Thank you Mr. Nicholson -- Talking about Christmas -- Silence knows the right questions -- One cancer cell -- Anathema -- Telling the truth in the realm of truth -- Ghosts in the machine -- Blood butterfly -- Is something wrong with your prostate? -- The soft animal of the body -- Aspirin and beauty -- Notes from the center of a perpetual breakdown -- Ready for anything -- A critical distance -- The way we know what we know -- Third opinion -- Hanna's volvulus -- The case of the missing molecule -- The pill on the shelf -- Mother Teresa and the problem of care -- The doctor's pill -- Afterword: brilliance.

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    History of Medicine
    BZP (Watts)
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  • 9781587298004
  • 1587298007