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In the Night Season
"Famous Dr. Barnard's latest operation is to transplant himself from surgeon to storyteller--and the prognosis is not nearly as ghastly as one might have feared. During the first half of this well-intentioned book, as ethical hero Dr. Charles de la Porte faces a malpractice suit and rampant ostracism because he decided not to tell patient Janice Case (a fellow M.D.) that she has inoperable cancer, events move along professionally enough in the South African urban setting--albeit with rather too much ponderous pondering ("Why did the background to his own agony have to be the sounds of riots in which children were made the victims of two sets of intransigence?"). Unfortunately, when a flashba...
The Unwanted
This novel reveals the inner struggle of a heart-surgeon who has to cope with two conflicting lives: that of a husband, lover, father and friend; and that of a doctor dedicated to the fight against death as the ultimate enemy.
Celebrity Surgeon
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The Best Medicine
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Written Under the Skin
Winner of the 2021 ALA Book of the Year Award - Scholarship The author uses the image of blood under the skin as a way of understanding cultural and literary forms in contemporary South Africa. Chapters deal with the bloodied histories of apartheid and blood as trope for talking about change.
Christiaan Barnard:
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Africana Nova
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National Union Catalog
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