The Best American Medical Writing 2009
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品牌: Chen
基本信息·出版社：Kaplan Publishing
·页码：336 页
·出版日期：2009年10月
·ISBN：1607144646
·International Standard Book Number：1607144646
·条形码：9781607144649
·EAN：9781607144649
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
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The Best American Medical Writing 2009highlights the year’s most poignant work from the genre’s fi nest authors— complete with an introduction by best-selling author and renowned transplant surgeon Pauline W. Chen.The Best American Medical Writing 2009celebrates incisive writing on the subject of medicine and its practice. This inaugural volume features writings by the likes of preeminent writers such as Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande, and is culled from diverse sources such asThe New Yorker,The New England Journal of Medicine,Salon,Newsweek,The Los Angeles Times,Discover, and many more. Contributors include the likes of Oliver Sacks writing on manic depression fromThe New York Times Review of Books, Amartya Sen on the innate, human right to health care fromThe Lancet, and Harriet Washington exploring the topic of race in professional medicine in an article forThe New York Times. Other contributors may include:• David Quammen• Perri Klass• Jason Zengerle• Michael Sokolove• Alex Kuczynski• Jessica Bennett• Rahul K. Parikh• Barron H. Lerner• Andrew Pollack• Jennifer Traig• Richard A. Friedman
作者简介Pauline W. Chen, a liver transplant and liver cancer surgeon, is the author ofFinal Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality(Knopf, 2007; Vintage, 2008), aNew York Timesbestseller that is being translated and sold in a dozen countries across the world.Dr. Chen graduated from Harvard University and Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and completed her surgical training at Yale University, the National Cancer Institute (National Institutes of Health), and the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was most recently a faculty member in the Department of Surgery. In 1999, she was named the U.C.L.A. Outstanding Physician of the Year.Dr. Chen, whose work has been nominated for a National Magazine Award, has written for a number of publications, including The Virginia Quarterly Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Prevention Magazine. She also speaks regularly to medical and general audiences across the country, including more recently the Association of American Medical Colleges and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
