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



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Autore: Gutkind Lee Visualizza persona
Titolo: An unspoken art : profiles of veterinary life / / Lee Gutkind Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : Open Road Integrated Media, , 2014
©1997
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (387 p.)
Disciplina: 636.089092273
Soggetto topico: Veterinarians - United States
Veterinary medicine - United States
Veterinary medicine - Vocational guidance - United States
Veterinarians
Veterinary medicine
Veterinary medicine - Vocational guidance
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
Titolo autorizzato: An unspoken art  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4804-7135-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910787082503321
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