Recognitions (Paperback)

The Kent State University Press

ISBN 10: 0873387252 / ISBN 13: 9780873387255

Published by Kent State University Press, Kent, OH, 2002

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Paperback. Carol Donley and Martin Kohn believe that ""physicians stand at a unique vantage point as observers of the human condition"". In this text, contributors attempt to prove this assertion through their prose on topics as diverse as the clashes between forces of creation and destruction, institutional economic survival, conflicts between genders and generations, balancing of primary care with specialization, issues of race and class, cultural displacement and the influence of William Carlos Williams on doctors and writing. The stories and essays in the collection provide a deeper understanding of the complex emotions and feelings of the men and women who, every day, hold life in their hands. Carol Donley and Martin Kohn believe that ""physicians stand at a unique vantage point as observers of the human condition"". In this text, contributors attempt to prove this assertion through their prose on a diverse range of topics. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Recognitions (Paperback)
• Publisher: Kent State University Press, Kent, OH
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873387252
• ISBN 13: 9780873387255
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Carol Donley & Martin Kohn believe that “physicians stand at a unique vantage point as observers of the human condition.” In Recognitions: Doctors and Their Stories, the fourth volume in the Literature and Medicine Series, contributors such as Richard Selzer, Robert Coles, Perri Klass, and Jack Coulehan prove this assertion through their moving and enlightening prose.

About the Author

Carol Donley is professor of English at Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio. She is the coauthor of Einstein as Myth and Muse (Cambridge University Press, 1986), and coeditor of The Tyranny of the Normal (Kent State University Press, 1996) and What’s Normal?: Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders (Kent State University Press, 2000).

Martin Kohn is associate professor of behavior sciences at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine in Rootstown, Ohio, and codirector, with Carol Donley, of the Center for Literature, Medicine, and Health Care Professions at Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio. He is coeditor, with Carol Donley and Denise Wear of Literature and Aging: An Anthology (Kent State University Press, 1992).