The Dressing Station

Winner of the Alan Paton Award and the South African Booksellers Choice AwardJonathan Kaplan has been a hospital surgeon, a flying doctor, a ship's medical officer and a battlefield surgeon. He has worked in places as diverse as Burma, Kurdistan, America, Mozambique, England and Eritrea. The Dressing Station presents a vivid, moving account of the varied faces of medicine he has encountered. In a mixture of reportage, confession and exposition Kaplan talks about the practice of medicine and of its shortcomings, because medicine is not always benign or balanced. At its extremes it is a process of treating the casualties, for life is a war, and being a doctor is serving in that war. 'His account is born of two talents: to save lives and to bear witness. The result is a unique mixture of biography and reportage, both personal and clinical' Time Magazine

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Kaplan, Kaplan Jonathan
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 16
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2014
• EAN: 9781447275831
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-7583-1
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Biographies, autobiographies; Medicine: general issues, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, Biography: science, technology and medicine