physicians

Journal excerpts chronicle the experiences Dr. Michihiko Hachiya, director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital, had in the days following the atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima.

Provides an easy-to-read explanation of what a doctor does.

Looks at eight significant women in the field of medicine.

When Sam visits the doctor's office for a check-up she takes his height and weight, tests his eyesight and hearing, listens to his heart and lungs, and gives him an injection.

A two-act play of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story about a depraved doctor who experiments with exotic potions that turn him into a killer.

In nineteenth-century Scotland, following the death of his mother during surgery, Robbie decides to take revenge on the surgeon who performed the operation, Dr. Robert Knox, and in the process, makes a gruesome discovery about the lengths the medical profession will go to advance its knowledge of anatomy.

In the early nineteenth century, when his sea-captain uncle invites him to assist the ship's surgeon on his next voyage, orphaned, fourteen-and-a-half-year-old Phillip, eager to be with family, accepts only to find out that his uncle is a slave trader.

"Offers two ... books in one. The first is a fictional biography of Dr. Spencer Black, from a childhood spent exhuming corpses through his medical training, his travels with carnivals, and the mysterious disappearance at the end of his life. The second book is Black's magnum opus: The Codex Extinct Animalia, a Gray's Anatomy for mythological beasts, dragons, centaurs, Pegasus, Cerberus, all rendered in meticulously detailed anatomical illustrations"--Dust jacket.

Dr. Gustav Uyterhoeven leaves Dayton, Ohio, in the late nineteenth-century to serve as a physician in the Boer War, and sends home twelve letters to his wife which chronicle his spiritual conversion, disguised as tales of his explorations of the imaginary island of Antipodes.