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The doctor stories
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The doctor stories / William Carlos Williams ; foreword by Atul Gawande ; compiled with an introduction by Robert Coles ; afterword by William Eric Williams.
ISBN
9780811228176
0811228177
Publication
New York : New Directions, [2018]
Copyright Notice Date
©1984
Physical Description
xviii, 142 pages ; 21 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN New Directions 1835: Paperbound. Numberline on title page verso indicates first printing: "2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1."
Summary
This collection of thirteen doctor stories, six poems on medical matters, and a selection from The Autobiography "can help many others take a knowing look at the medical profession."
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 10, 2020
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 1423
Contents
Mind and body
Old Doc Rivers
The girl with a pimply face
The use of force
A night in June
Jean Beicke
A face of stone
Dance pseudomacabre
The paid nurse
Ancient gentility
Verbal transcription : 6 a.m.
The insane
Comedy entombed : 1930
The practice (from The autobiography)
Poems: The birth ; Le médecin maglré lui ; Dead baby ; A cold front ; The poor ; To close
Afterword: My father, the doctor / by William Eric Williams.
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Fiction.
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New Directions Publishing, publisher.
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