Mortal Lessons : Notes on The Art of Surgery

222pp. Lightly illustrated. Quarter bound in red cloth over card (boards very lightly worn and faded along top edge). Internally neat, clean, crisp and bright. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. In its original, now a little faded, dust jacket (a couple of short edge nicks, small indentation on spine). Contemporary review from the National Observer laid in. Selzer, a surgeon and literary stylist, invites the reader into the operating theatre where he explores not only the human body but the mind and soul as well. Narrative clinical material is juxaposed with dramatic and humorous tableaux of the human body.