The Man Who Lived in an Eggcup: A Memoir of Triumph and Self-Destruction - Tapa blanda

In the corridors of every hospital lurk tales of triumph and tragedy, lives won and lost to the world of medicine. But the complexity of the human psyche cannot be stripped down to mere science. Indeed, it's in this environment—where people remain at their most vulnerable— that the human condition manifests itself the strongest. In these alternately heartwarming and heartbreaking memoirs—most previously published in some of America's best journals, such as Epoch, Boulevard, The Antioch Review, and The Alaska Quarterly Review—author John Gamel shares what he's seen during a lifetime in medicine. These are the stories behind the stories, and with them come the desires, failures, addictions, and fragilities that make us who we are.

John Gamel was born and raised in Selma, Alabama, then obtained his BA from Harvard and his MD from Stanford. After additional training at Stanford and at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, DC, he moved to Louisville, Kentucky in 1977. Here he became a Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, where he remained until his partial retirement in 2001. His scientific contributions include ninety-three articles that range in their subjects from fingerprints to breast cancer. He has published fifteen personal essays in a variety of literary journals, including Epoch, Boulevard, The Antioch Review, and The Alaska Quarterly Review. His work entitled “The Elegant Eyeball” was included in The Best American Essays 2010.AUTHOR HOME: Louisville, KY