{"product_id":"9780802142788","title":"Contact Wounds: A War Surgeon's Education","description":"\u003cp\u003eSurgery is the crude art of cutting people open, yet it is also a symphony of delicate manipulation and subtle chords. So says Jonathan Kaplan in his stunning book \u003ci\u003eContact Wounds\u003c\/i\u003e , an electrifying account of a doctor’s education in the classroom, in life, and on the battlefield. Inspired by his father, a military surgeon in World War II and Israel’s nascent fight for statehood, Kaplan became a doctor and was appointed to a post at a woefully understaffed South African general hospital in a black township. Fleeing apartheid, he traveled the globe in search of sanctuary, experiencing riots, tropical fevers, political upheaval, and a jungle search for a lost friend. Kaplan eventually landed in Angola, taking charge of a combat-zone hospital, the only surgeon for 160,000 civilians, where he was exposed daily to the horrors of war. Journeying further into dangerous territory, Kaplan portrays serving as a volunteer surgeon in Baghdad—where he treated civilian casualties amid gunfights for control of hospitals and dealt with gangs of AK-47-wielding looters stripping pharmacies. \u003ci\u003eContact Wounds\u003c\/i\u003e is a stirring testament of adventure, discovery, survival, and the making of a career devoted to saving people caught in the crossfire of war.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Atlantic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020282151152,"sku":"9780802142788","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802142788_p0.jpg?v=1769906599","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802142788","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}