03249nam 2200625 450 991081878880332120230803205033.01-4804-7135-6(CKB)3710000000233924(EBL)1806551(SSID)ssj0001526744(PQKBManifestationID)11878978(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001526744(PQKBWorkID)11512652(PQKB)11162028(MiAaPQ)EBC1806551(Au-PeEL)EBL1806551(OCoLC)892801814(EXLCZ)99371000000023392420180717h20141997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAn unspoken art profiles of veterinary life /Lee GutkindNew York, New York :Open Road Integrated Media,2014.©19971 online resource (387 p.)"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.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; AcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorCopyrightIn 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 humaVeterinariansUnited StatesVeterinary medicineUnited StatesVeterinary medicineVocational guidanceUnited StatesVeterinariansVeterinary medicineVeterinary medicineVocational guidanceVeterinariansVeterinary medicineVeterinary medicineVocational guidanceVeterinarians.Veterinary medicine.Veterinary medicineVocational guidance.636.089092273Gutkind Lee1688958MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818788803321An unspoken art4127122UNINA