- Moral and ethical aspects, Death, Surgeons, Terminal care
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.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Pauline W. Chen
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Souvenir Press Limited, Vintage Books, Vintage
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307275370
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