Surgery, Sculpture, and Déformation Professionelle: A Surgeon's Encounter with Trauma in Richard Selzer's Two Koreas

In this thesis, I consider the short story Korea and the novel Knife Song Korea, by physician and writer Richard Selzer to pose questions about how a surgeons professional technique, or surgical style, may be shaped by traumatic experiences in the operating room. Selzer's Korea stories were bas...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mitchell, Lauren Ashley
Other Authors: Jay Clayton
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2015
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-11222015-235920/