Blood & Bone

by Belli, Angela; Coulehan, Jack

• ISBN13: 9780877456377
• ISBN10: 0877456372
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr

Summary

Until recently, many in the Western world regarded medicine as a wholly scientific pursuit, separate from and even antithetical to spiritual and artistic concerns. Yet every physician who acknowledges uncertainty as a recurring factor in medical practice understands the fallibility of science and technology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi	(2)
Foreword	xiii	(2)
Edmund D. Pellegrino
Introduction	xv
"FROM PATIENT ONE TO NEXT"	1	(58)
Dannie Abse	5	(6)
The Doctor	5	(1)
Lunch and Afterwards	6	(1)
Millie's Date	7	(1)
The Stethoscope	8	(1)
Pathology of Colours	9	(1)
X-Ray	10	(1)
Rafael Campo	11	(3)
Her Final Show	11	(1)
S. W.	12	(1)
Towards Curing AIDS	13	(1)
Ron Charach	14	(5)
Labour and Delivery	14	(2)
MRI	16	(2)
The Evidence on Film	18	(1)
Jack Coulehan	19	(4)
D-Day, 1994	19	(1)
The Azalea Poem	20	(1)
I'm Gonna Slap Those Doctors	21	(1)
The Man with a Hole in His Face	22	(1)
D.A. Feinfeld Carmelita	23	(1)
Arthur Ginsberg	24	(3)
Stroke	24	(1)
The Chief of Medicine	25	(2)
John Graham-Pole Candor	27	(1)
Grace Herman The Clinic	28	(1)
Eugene Hirsch Two Suffering Men	29	(2)
Alice Jones	31	(2)
Tap	31	(1)
Anorexia	32	(1)
Jon Mukand	33	(3)
Lullaby	33	(1)
First Payment	34	(2)
Michael O'Reilly	36	(4)
abused child	36	(1)
a small girl brings an injured bird into the surgery	37	(2)
a house call to a man with parkinson's disease	39	(1)
Frederic W. Platt Coincidentally	40	(1)
Elspeth Cameron Ritchie Electroconvulsive Therapy	41	(2)
Vernon Rowe	43	(3)
MRI of a Poet's Brain	43	(1)
Time Heals All Wounds -- But One	44	(1)
Youth	45	(1)
Audrey Shafer Gurney Tears	46	(2)
John Stone	48	(3)
He Makes a House Call	48	(2)
Confabulation	50	(1)
Marc J. Straus Luck	51	(1)
Paula Tatarunis	52	(2)
I Have Two Sons and the One I Love Best Is Robert	52	(1)
Chest X-Ray	53	(1)
John Wright	54	(2)
Therapy	54	(1)
Walking the Dog	55	(1)
George Young	56	(3)
A Letter to William Carlos Williams	56	(1)
Night Call	57	(2)
"A DIFFERENT PICTURE OF ME"	59	(26)
Rafael Campo El Curandero	61	(2)
Eric Dyer 'Round Killar	63	(1)
Kirsten Emmott Who Looks after Your Kids?	64	(1)
John Graham-Pole Leaving Mother, 1954	65	(1)
Alice Jones Communal Living	66	(1)
Michael Lieberman	67	(3)
On the Anniversary of My Father's Death	67	(1)
Regret	68	(1)
Los Olivos	69	(1)
Michael O'Reilly potter	70	(2)
Audrey Shafer Monday Morning	72	(2)
John Stone	74	(6)
The Bass	74	(2)
Rosemary	76	(3)
Talking to the Family	79	(1)
Marc J. Straus What I Heard on the Radio Today	80	(2)
Paula Tatarunis Before the Brain Surgery	82	(1)
John Wright	83	(2)
The Portugal Laurel	83	(1)
Transfiguration	84	(1)
"IN WAYS THAT HELPED THEM SEE"	85	(32)
Dannie Abse	88	(6)
Carnal Knowledge	88	(3)
In the Theatre	91	(2)
The Origin of Music	93	(1)
Rafael Campo What the Body Told	94	(1)
Robert Coles On Dutch's Death	95	(2)
Jack Coulehan	97	(2)
Anatomy Lesson	97	(1)
The Rule of Thirds	98	(1)
Eric Dyer Painting the Nude	99	(1)
D. A. Feinfeld The Wound Man	100	(1)
James L. Foy Autopsy	101	(2)
Arthur Ginsberg Line Drive	103	(1)
John Graham-Pole Venipuncture	104	(1)
David Moolten	105	(4)
Motorcycle Ward	105	(2)
Bio 7	107	(2)
John Stone Gaudeamus Igitur: A Valediction	109	(4)
Marc J. Straus	113	(4)
The Log of Pi	113	(1)
Neuroanatomy Summer	114	(1)
Scarlet Crown	115	(2)
"... THIS WAS THE MUSIC OF OUR LIVES"	117	(36)
Louis M. Abbey Broken Silence	120	(2)
Ron Charach A Question of Vitamins	122	(2)
Robert Coles	124	(5)
Christmas, Belfast	124	(2)
The Goddam Street	126	(1)
New Jersey Boys	127	(2)
Jack Coulehan	129	(3)
The Dynamizer and the Oscilloclast	129	(2)
Lovesickness: A Medieval Text	131	(1)
Richard Donze Vermont Has a High Suicide Rate	132	(2)
Thomas Dorsett The Survivor	134	(1)
John Graham-Pole The Pain	135	(1)
Norbert Hirschhorn Number Our Days	136	(2)
Michael Lieberman Prediction	138	(1)
David Moolten	139	(5)
Voyeur	139	(2)
Brandy Station, Virginia	141	(1)
Madame Butterfly	142	(2)
John Stone	144	(3)
The Truck	144	(2)
Getting to Sleep in New Jersey	146	(1)
H.J. Van Peenen	147	(2)
Will Campbell Displays His Craniotribe	147	(1)
Insulin Receptor	148	(1)
George Young	149	(4)
Damien	149	(2)
The Miracle	151	(2)
Permissions	153	(4)
Contributors	157