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Ebrio de enfermedad

Ebrio de enfermedad

y otros escritos de la vida y la muerte
EssaysMedicine
Pages
184
Published
2013
Language
Spanish

Synopsis

Anatole Broyard, a literary critic, confronts his own mortality after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. This memoir offers a raw and honest look at his experience with illness, the medical establishment, and the profound questions that arise when facing the end of life. It is a deeply personal and philosophical exploration of what it means to live and die with dignity.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

MelancholicReflectiveThought-ProvokingInformative

Genres

Essays Medicine Memoir Philosophy

Authors

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Anatole Broyard

Anatole Broyard was a writer and critic whose work often appeared in the realm of literary analysis. He is known for his contributions to Prentice Hall Literature, a collection that showcases a range of literary styles and periods.

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Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as “the poet laureate of medicine.” He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of...