The orange wire problem and other tales from the doctor's office / David Watts.
- Watts, H. David.
- Date:
- [2009], ©2009
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2009], ©2009.
Physical description
xvii, 186 pages ; 24 cm
Contributors
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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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineBZP (Watts)Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9781587298004
- 1587298007