The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine - Softcover

Kaplan, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802139620 ISBN 13: 9780802139627

Verlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003

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"The Dressing Station" is a searing portrait of devastation on the battlefield--a haunting and elucidating look into the nature of human violence, the shattering contradictions of war, and the complicated role of medicine in this modern world.

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The Dressing Station is a searing portrait of devastation on the battlefield that "illuminates the consequences of war and the ambiguities of relief work at a time when these issues couldn't matter more" (Caroline Fraser, Outside). From treating the casualties of apartheid in Cape Town to operating on Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq at the end of the Gulf War, Jonathan Kaplan has saved (and lost) lives in the remotest corners of the world in the most extreme conditions. He has been a hospital surgeon, a ship's physician, an air-ambulance doctor, and a trauma surgeon. He has worked in locations as diverse as England, Burma, Eritrea, the Amazon, Mozambique, and the United States.

In this story of unforgettable adventure and tragedy, Dr. Kaplan explores the great challenge of his career -- to maintain his humanity even when that option does not seem possible. The Dressing Station is a haunting and elucidating look into the nature of human violence, the shattering contradictions of war, and the complicated role of medicine in this modern world.

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• Verlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0802139620
• ISBN 13: 9780802139627
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416