THE MYSTERIES WITHIN: A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths.
by Nuland, Sherwin B
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0684854864
- ISBN 13
- 9780684854861
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (2000). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. A book by this surgeon who is also an award-winning writer on how human have perceived the organs of our bodies over the centuries - he "shows us how we came to understand the organs from which we've derived the strongest and strangest mythology--stomach, liver, heart, spleen, and uterus. After reading this book, you'll be able to smile appreciatively when someone expresses a 'gut feeling'." Index. 286 pp.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75774
- Title
- THE MYSTERIES WITHIN: A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths.
- Author
- Nuland, Sherwin B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0684854864
- ISBN 13
- 9780684854861
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2000)
- Keywords
- medical history, organs,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medicine, health and the medical profession;
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