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Touching Distance
por Abrams, Rebecca
- Usado
- Capa dura
- Assinado
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0230015557
- ISBN 13
- 9780230015555
- Livreiro
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Eureka, California, United States
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Pan Macmillan, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 310 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.
It is 1790. After ten years training in the great medical schools of Europe, Alec Gordon has returned to Scotland to take up the post of physicianin the Aberdeen Dispensary. Alec has ambitious plans for modernizing medical practice in the town, starting with the local midwives, whose ignorance and old-fashioned methods appal him.But Alec s dreams of progress are thrown into disarray when a mysterious disease suddenly strikes the town, attacking and killing every newly delivered mother for miles around. Alec alone recognizes it as childbed fever, a disease more deadly than the plague, a condition that has baffled the greatest physicians of the age, an illness with no known cause and no known cure.Desperate to save his patients lives, Alec sets out on an astonishing medical quest to conquer the disease. But while Alec struggles to find solutions that lie far in the future, his wife Elizabeth is increasingly lost in the past, prey to terrifying memories of her childhood in Antigua. As she knows and he will learn, some diseases lie beyond the reach of reason.Based on a true story, "Touching Distance" is a stunning historical novel that brings to life a fascinating period in world history, exploring the tragic limitations of knowledge and the deep-seated tension between reason and passion in the Age of Enlightenment.
It is 1790. After ten years training in the great medical schools of Europe, Alec Gordon has returned to Scotland to take up the post of physicianin the Aberdeen Dispensary. Alec has ambitious plans for modernizing medical practice in the town, starting with the local midwives, whose ignorance and old-fashioned methods appal him.But Alec s dreams of progress are thrown into disarray when a mysterious disease suddenly strikes the town, attacking and killing every newly delivered mother for miles around. Alec alone recognizes it as childbed fever, a disease more deadly than the plague, a condition that has baffled the greatest physicians of the age, an illness with no known cause and no known cure.Desperate to save his patients lives, Alec sets out on an astonishing medical quest to conquer the disease. But while Alec struggles to find solutions that lie far in the future, his wife Elizabeth is increasingly lost in the past, prey to terrifying memories of her childhood in Antigua. As she knows and he will learn, some diseases lie beyond the reach of reason.Based on a true story, "Touching Distance" is a stunning historical novel that brings to life a fascinating period in world history, exploring the tragic limitations of knowledge and the deep-seated tension between reason and passion in the Age of Enlightenment.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Eureka Books (US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 305011
- Título
- Touching Distance
- Autor
- Abrams, Rebecca
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Fine
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0230015557
- ISBN 13
- 9780230015555
- Editorial
- Pan Macmillan
- Local de publicação
- London
- Data de publicação
- 2008
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Eureka, California
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