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...BABY IN THE BOTTLE by William A. Nolen, M.D. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; 253 pages...
...encapsulation of the nationwide abortion debate. Some attempted to make a martyr of Edelin, who is black. Others supported his accusers, who were, as it turned out, only public prosecutors doing what they considered a distasteful job. Few understood the controversy or viewed the personalities with objectivity. Dr. William Nolen, the Litchfield, Minn., surgeon who first won a national following with his 1970 book The Making of a Surgeon, was one of those...
...game around, and the fans on. It became 4-2 at 15:55 when Bobby McDonald fed a perfect backhand centering pass to Tommy Murray for Harvard's second tally. And 34 seconds later, with 3:31 remaining in the game, it suddenly became a contest, as retread Billy Nolen ripped home Barney Cook's face-off pass to make...
...ignored some crucial facts. One part reported on "psychic surgery," in which Filipino healers supposedly diagnose tumors and other problems, then use psychic forces-not scalpels-to make incisions and treat them. It did not mention that these sorts of '"miracles" have been rationally explained. Dr. William Nolen, a Minnesota surgeon, underwent a similar operation himself while researching his 1975 book Healing and reported that the "psychic" incisions were actually made with bits of mica concealed under a fingernail. The excised "tumor" appeared to Nolen to be chicken tissue and had been concealed in the surgeon's fist...
Selzer is hardly the first M.D. to ruminate about the scalpel. Rabelais, Chekhov, William Carlos Williams, Celine, and more recently William Nolen have written moving accounts of their medical careers. But few have examined the surgical art with such fervor and concern. Some doctors deplore the body's limitations; Selzer celebrates them. "It is the flesh alone that counts," he begins. "In the recesses of the body I search for the philosopher's stone...