The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Medical Miracles and Other Disasters
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Extraordinarily powerful and superbly written, this book has been widely acclaimed as a major work of popular science. It won an American Health Book Award in 1986.
This gripping and provocative book looks at the modern hospital with a probing, intimate approach. Written by a registered nurse, it tells the dramatic, poignant real-life stories of both patients and caregivers caught up in the mysterious cycle of wellness and sickness. She is puzzled by the fascinating contradictions and paradoxes - the dubious miracles of modern medicine. Despite the panoply of high-tech technology, we cannot escape the feeling that medicine retains its primal roots of sorcery and that we are all its apprentices.
It deals with the real-life stories of patients and care givers caught in the cycle of wellness and sickness and highlights the contradictions and paradoxes of modern medical miracles.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Medical Miracles and Other Disasters,Sallie Tisdale,Beard Books,1587981645,Ethics,Hospital patients,Hospitals,Medical,Medical / Nursing,Medical ethics,Psychological aspects,Psychology,Medicine: General Issues,Popular science
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