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Mortal Lessons

by Richard Selzer

Surgery, the body, and mortality in nineteen essays

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Surgery, the body, and mortality in nineteen essays

Richard Selzer’s collection approaches surgery through the bodily realities of medical practice, including the body’s workings and misworkings. Across nineteen essays, the subject widens to questions of life and death, placing clinical experience alongside broader reflections on human existence. The publisher description also notes a preface written by Selzer for this edition, offering an additional entry point into the collection.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in essays on surgery and the human body
  • Readers drawn to medical writing that considers life and death
  • Readers seeking a collection of nineteen essays by a surgeon-author

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Surgery and medical practiceThe human bodyLife and death

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Book overview

In this collection of nineteen unforgettable essays, Dr. Selzer describes unsparingly the surgeon's art. Both moving and perversely funny, Mortal Lessons is an established classic that considers not only the workings and misworkings of the human body but also the meaning of life and death. With a Preface written by the Author especially for this edition.
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