{"product_id":"9781467802888","title":"DOCTOR, PATIENT, OBJECT, THING: A Story About A Surgeon And A Teacher","description":"\u003cp\u003e“The surgeon bounded into my life uninvited. He was thirty-nine, talented, charming, and a self-proclaimed yuppie.  I was sixty-two, a successful academic, popular with my students, and a self-proclaimed teacher.  We had little in common, my surgeon and I, except a vulvectomy:  a surgery that he would perform and that I would undergo.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe vulvectomy was well done, the relationship was not. This is the story of that relationship.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProfessor Diane Harvey weaves an engaging story about the relationship between a charismatic, confident, competent young surgeon in his late thirties and a popular, award-winning senior professor of philosophy.  At first, the young man is her surgeon.  As the story enfolds, she becomes his teacher.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe purpose of the story is to share the sensitive surgical journey of a patient with others, especially those who are undergoing or have undergone personal female surgeries such as hysterectomies, mastectomies, and vulvectomies, and to engage the reader in a discussion about the effect on the patient of “assembly-line surgery” in which the patient is treated by the surgeon as an object.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhile the emphasis is on personal female surgeries, any reader, male or female, who has undergone or is facing a surgery for life-threatening conditions, will be interested in the relationship between the surgeon and the patient.  Certainly, however, this book is a “must-give” to your mother, sister, adult daughter, wife, lover, or partner and to any friend traveling the surgical journey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124905099504,"sku":"9781467802888","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781467802888_p0.jpg?v=1763695120","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781467802888","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}