Description: Further DetailsTitle: Contact WoundsCondition: NewSubtitle: A War Surgeon's EducationEAN: 9780802142788ISBN: 9780802142788Edition: First Trade Paper EditionPublisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/26/2006Description: Surgery is the crude art of cutting people open, yet it is also a symphony of delicate manipulation and subtle chords. So says Jonathan Kaplan in his stunning book Contact Wounds, an electrifying account of a doctor’s education in the classroom, in life, and on the battlefield. Inspired by his father, a military surgeon in World War II and Israel’s nascent fight for statehood, Kaplan became a doctor and was appointed to a post at a woefully understaffed South African general hospital in a black township. Fleeing apartheid, he traveled the globe in search of sanctuary, experiencing riots, tropical fevers, political upheaval, and a jungle search for a lost friend. Kaplan eventually landed in Angola, taking charge of a combat-zone hospital, the only surgeon for 160,000 civilians, where he was exposed daily to the horrors of war. Journeying further into dangerous territory, Kaplan portrays serving as a volunteer surgeon in Baghdadwhere he treated civilian casualties amid gunfights for control of hospitals and dealt with gangs of AK-47-wielding looters stripping pharmacies. Contact Wounds is a stirring testament of adventure, discovery, survival, and the making of a career devoted to saving people caught in the crossfire of war.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 209mmItem Length: 139mmItem Weight: 326gAuthor: Jonathan KaplanGenre: BiographyRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Contact Wounds
Title: Contact Wounds
Subtitle: A War Surgeon's Education
EAN: 9780802142788
ISBN: 9780802142788
Edition: First Trade Paper Edition
Release Date: 10/26/2006
Release Year: 2006
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Biography
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Contact Wounds : a War Surgeon's Education
Publisher: GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
Subject: Surgery / General, Personal Memoirs, Military / General
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2006
Item Weight: 11.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Jonathan Kaplan
Subject Area: Biography & Autobiography, Medical, History
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Perfect
