Language of Cells A Doctor and His Patients

Name: Language of Cells A Doctor and His Patients
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ISBN: 9780375708695

ISBN-10: 0375708693

ISBN-13: 9780375708695

Edition: N/A

Authors: Spencer Nadler

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As a surgical pathologist for more than twenty-five years, Spencer Nadler was not content with the distance between his lab and the patient. Meeting with those whose diseased cells he has diagnosed, he offers them a rare understanding. Hanna Baylan is a woman as determined as he is to confront the cancer cells biopsied from her breast. Comille, a young boy with Sickle Cell anemia, has frequent racking pain, but doesn’t let it interfere with his gusto for life. And 91-year old-conductor Mehli Mehta inspires comparison between the cellular rhythms that threaten his heart and those that govern his work. In these intimate, lyrical portraits of people and their cells, Nadler brings a unique …

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/8/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.16" wide x 8.11" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

Spencer Nadler, M.D., has practiced surgical pathology for more than twenty-five years in Southern California. His essays have appeared inHarper's, The Massachusetts Review, Cross Currents, The Missouri Review, The American Scholar, andReader's Digest.The Language of Cellsis his first book. From the Hardcover edition.