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Field Notes from Elsewhere

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Field Notes from Elsewhere

By Mark C. Taylor

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About the book

In the fall of 2005, Mark C. Taylor, the controversial public intellectual and widely respected scholar, suddenly fell critically ill. For two days a team of forty doctors, many of whom thought he would not live, fought to save him. Taylor would eventually recover, but only to face a new threat: surgery for cancer. "These experiences have changed me in ways I am still struggling to understand," Taylor writes in this absorbing memoir. "After the past year, I am persuaded that I have done enough f...Show more

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9780231147811

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published year

2014

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1

Original title

Field Notes from Elsewhere

Format

Paperback

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