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Author | : John O'Hara |
Publisher | : Library of America |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2020-08-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1598536850 |
Secrets emerge as a fearsome contagion in this long autobiographical story set in small-town Pennsylvania amid the influenza pandemic of 1918. “The Doctor’s Son” concerns James "Jimmy" Malloy, a teenager on the uncertain edge of manhood, confronted by sudden death and the loss of illusions. Having worked himself to exhaustion, his father, Doctor Mike Malloy enlists “Doctor” Myers, a medical student, to treat his patients until he has recovered and fifteen-year-old Jimmy drives Myers around the county on his rounds. O’Hara’s earliest account of his fraught relationship with his formidable father, this classic tale is, in the words of New York Times cultural critic Charles McGrath, "a love story, really, if a frustrated, unrequited one." It is also a fascinating record of the social effects of America's first great confrontation with a global pandemic.
Author | : John O'Hara |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1961 |
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Author | : William Maxwell |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2011-02-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 144643477X |
Discover William Maxwell’s classic, heart-breaking portrait of an ordinary American family struck by the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic 'A story of such engaging warmth that it would thaw the heart of any critic... Will melt many a reader to tears’ TIME Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman. Yet, to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To Robert, her elder son, she is someone he must protect against the dangers of the outside world. And to her husband, James, she is the foundation on which his family rests and life without her is unimaginable. As the dark winter of 1918 dawns and the shadow of Spanish flu starts to disturb day-to-day life, a moving portrait of Elizabeth takes shape, set against the lives and fate of the Morison family. ‘As you read They Came Like Swallows, you catch yourself from time to time being astonished at how tightly you're gripping the pages... There isn't a word that has dated. It could have been written yesterday, or tomorrow’ Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
Author | : Barron H. Lerner |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-05-13 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0807033413 |
The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health care As a practicing physician and longtime member of his hospital’s ethics committee, Dr. Barron Lerner thought he had heard it all. But in the mid-1990s, his father, an infectious diseases physician, told him a stunning story: he had physically placed his body over an end-stage patient who had stopped breathing, preventing his colleagues from performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, even though CPR was the ethically and legally accepted thing to do. Over the next few years, the senior Dr. Lerner tried to speed the deaths of his seriously ill mother and mother-in-law to spare them further suffering. These stories angered and alarmed the younger Dr. Lerner—an internist, historian of medicine, and bioethicist—who had rejected physician-based paternalism in favor of informed consent and patient autonomy. The Good Doctor is a fascinating and moving account of how Dr. Lerner came to terms with two very different images of his father: a revered clinician, teacher, and researcher who always put his patients first, but also a physician willing to “play God,” opposing the very revolution in patients' rights that his son was studying and teaching to his own medical students. But the elder Dr. Lerner’s journals, which he had kept for decades, showed the son how the father’s outdated paternalism had grown out of a fierce devotion to patient-centered medicine, which was rapidly disappearing. And they raised questions: Are paternalistic doctors just relics, or should their expertise be used to overrule patients and families that make ill-advised choices? Does the growing use of personalized medicine—in which specific interventions may be best for specific patients—change the calculus between autonomy and paternalism? And how can we best use technologies that were invented to save lives but now too often prolong death? In an era of high-technology medicine, spiraling costs, and health-care reform, these questions could not be more relevant. As his father slowly died of Parkinson’s disease, Barron Lerner faced these questions both personally and professionally. He found himself being pulled into his dad’s medical care, even though he had criticized his father for making medical decisions for his relatives. Did playing God—at least in some situations—actually make sense? Did doctors sometimes “know best”? A timely and compelling story of one family’s engagement with medicine over the last half century, The Good Doctor is an important book for those who treat illness—and those who struggle to overcome it.
Author | : Dr. Haitham Ahmed |
Publisher | : Archway Publishing |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2020-08-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1480887900 |
Written by a doctor, Cardiology for Babies offers a perfect introduction to the wonders of the human body. This interactive board book teaches little ones about the heart, one of the body’s most vital organs, and the role it plays in maintaining life. Through words and pictures, this book for children captures the imagination, stimulates curiosity, and facilitates a love for science in the next generation.
Author | : Douglas R Hofstadter |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 2008-08-04 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0786723866 |
Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : |
Paul Dombey is a cold, unbending, pompous merchant, and a widower with two children - Paul and Florence. His chief ambition is to perpetuate the firm-name. He dreams of passing his business on to his son. Dombey dotes on his son, and neglects and mistreats his daughter.The "son" in the title of the book is incapable of ever joining the firm. A sickly and odd child, Paul dies at the age of six. Dombey pours his resentment and anger out on his daughter, whom he pushes away despite her efforts to earn her father's love.Eventually Dombey remarries, after literally acquiring his new wife from her father in a commercial transaction. Dombey is as bad a husband as he is a father and his marriage is loveless. His new bride hates Dombey and eventually runs off with Canker, his business manager. Dombey characteristically blames Florence for this reversal, and strikes her, causing Florence to run away as well.Abandoned by everyone, Dombey loses his business and goes half insane, living in his decaying house. Dombey is eventually reconciled to his daughter, who always a doormat forgives her father........
Author | : Dr. Haitham Ahmed |
Publisher | : Archway Publishing |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2020-08-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1480891061 |
Written by a doctor, Cell Biology for Babies offers an introduction to the wonders of the human body. This interactive picture book teaches young readers about the parts of a cell, the basic building block of life, and builds a foundation for future science education. Through words and pictures, this book for children captures the imagination, stimulates curiosity, and facilitates a love for science in the next generation.
Author | : Sampson Davis |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2003-05-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781573229890 |
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A remarkable story about the power of friendship. Chosen by Essence to be among the forty most influential African Americans, the three doctors grew up in the streets of Newark, facing city life’s temptations, pitfalls, even jail. But one day these three young men made a pact. They promised each other they would all become doctors, and stick it out together through the long, difficult journey to attaining that dream. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt are not only friends to this day—they are all doctors. This is a story about joining forces and beating the odds. A story about changing your life, and the lives of those you love most... together.
Author | : Adam Hargreaves |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2019-01-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1524788600 |
Dr. Thirteenth is here in a deluxe, limited edition hardcover! A fabulous mashup of the fantastical storytelling of Dr. Who and the whimsical humor of Roger Hargreaves, the book will appeal to fans of both iconic brands! This is an original Doctor Who adventure reimagined in the style of Roger Hargreaves. In a special, larger trim size, and with foil on the cover, this is the most deluxe Doctor Who storybook to date. Written and illustrated by Adam Hargreaves, Dr. Thirteenth combines the iconic storytelling of Doctor Who with the whimsical humor and design made famous by his father, Roger Hargreaves.