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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460241903321

Autore

Gutkind Lee

Titolo

An unspoken art : profiles of veterinary life / / Lee Gutkind

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Open Road Integrated Media, , 2014

©1997

ISBN

1-4804-7135-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (387 p.)

Disciplina

636.089092273

Soggetti

Veterinarians - United States

Veterinary medicine - United States

Veterinary medicine - Vocational guidance - United States

Veterinarians

Veterinary medicine

Veterinary medicine - Vocational guidance

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Portions of this book were first published in slightly different forms in Prairie schooner and The crab orchard review and in The art of nonfiction: writing and selling the literature of reality, published by John Wiley & Sons"--Title page verso.

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: ""We Lay Our Hands Down upon Them""; Doing ""God''s Work""; Manhattan Veterinarian; Rescue Fantasy; Office Hours; A Way of Life; VHUP; ""Lady Comes into My Office""; New Bolton; Stallion Ring; Invasive Procedures; The Quitter; Difficult Decisions; Not Just an Ordinary Veterinary School Vet; Reindeer with a Hernia; Aquazoo; Primates--and Other Warriors; Tuskectomy; Fecalas Lizardas--and Other Funny Jokes; Baby-sitting the Bongo; Icy; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z; Acknowledgments

About the AuthorCopyright

Sommario/riassunto

In the tradition of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small, An Unspoken Art is Lee Gutkind's captivating look at the lives of



veterinarians, from the zoos to the farmLee Gutkind, the godfather of creative nonfiction, explores with warmth and sincerity the worlds of modern-day veterinarians-from practitioners operating on Manhattan's Upper East Side to those working knee deep in mud in the English countryside. Gutkind profiles the men and women who have devoted their lives to the care of animals, almost all treating their patients with more humanity and compassion than physicians in huma