内容简介
Like the works of Jodi Picoult and Chris Bohjalian, The Mystery
of Breathing explores highly contemporary ethical dilemmas in a
page-turning drama. An intense medical thriller, psychologically
riveting, The Mystery of Breathing takes readers inside the
competitive world of emergency medicine. Maggie Claymore is a
brilliant neonatal physician at the top of her game and the height
of her career when she falls prey to an anonymous hate note
campaign designed to destroy her reputation. Klass, herself a
pediatrician, lends firsthand immediacy to the breakneck pace of
high-tech medicine and its toll on a dedicated doctor. In her acute
portrait of Maggie, Klass "specializes in that space between a rock
and a hard place that contemporary women find themselves in"
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer).
作者简介
PERRI KLASS is a practicing pediatrician, an acclaimed author of
fiction and nonfiction, and a prizewinning journalist. She has won
five O. Henry Awards for her short stories, including three of the
stories in Love and Modern Medicine. Her fiction includes two
novels, Recombinations and Other Women"s Children, and a collection
of short stories, I Am Having an Adventure. She has also written
two collections of essays about medicine, A Not Entirely Benign
Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student and Baby Doctor: A
Pediatrician"s Training. Her columns and articles have appeared the
New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe,
Discover, and Parenting. She recently won a James Beard Foundation
Award for an article in Gourmet, "The Lunch Box as Battlefield."
Both Klass"s fiction and her journalism have dealt with issues of
medicine and society. In her medical career she practices
pediatrics at Dorchester House, a neighborhood health center in
Boston, and is medical di