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Autopsy of war : a personal history
Format:
Book
Title:
Autopsy of war : a personal history
ISBN:
9780312654962
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2012.
Physical Description:
xiv, 365 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
The good boy -- The good soldier -- The good doctor -- The good work.
Summary:
On the outside, John Parrish is a highly successful doctor, having risen to the top of his field as department head at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Inside, however, he was so tortured by the memories of his tour of duty as a marine battlefield doctor in Vietnam that he was unable to live a normal life. In Autopsy of War, the author delivers an unflinching narrative chronicling his four-decade battle with the unseen enemy in his own mind as he struggled with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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