Raising the Dead: A Doctor's Encounter with his Own Mortality

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Volume 330:1835		June 23, 1994		Number 25

Raising the Dead: A Doctor's Encounter with his Own Mortality

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By Richard Selzer. 118 pp. New York, Penguin Books, 1993. $17.50. ISBN 0-670-85414-X.

Early in the 19th century, Fanny Burney, one of the most notednovelists of her day, felt a lump in her breast. It persisted.Eventually, she underwent a mastectomy, with all the travailthat the medical care of the period involved. She received littleadvance notice of the surgery, which would have spared her muchanxiety in its anticipation. Later, she wrote a novelistic accountof her experience. Richard Selzer tells us this story in thefirst part of Raising the Dead.

Late in the 20th century, Richard Selzer, a surgeon and author,fell ill with legionnaires' disease. Like Burney, . . . [Full Text of this Article]