Raising the Dead
Subtitle: A Doctor's Encounter with His Own Mortality
Publisher: Viking in association with Whittle Books; Viking
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Knoxville, Tennessee
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780670854141
Subjects: Selzer, Richard, 1928- -- Health.; Coma -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.; Legionnaires' disease -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.; Physicians -- United States -- Biography.
First sentence: It was in August of the year 1810 that Fanny d'Arblay (née Burney), an Englishwoman living in Paris and the most famous woman novelist of her day, experienced for the first time "an annoyance" in her right breast.