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Book SynopsisWhen North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children. In addition to his own story, Apel details the operating conditions, workload, and patient care at the MASH units while revealing the remarkable advances made in emergency medical care.
Table of ContentsThe Fly and the Human: Ironies of Disgust Tragedy and Terrible Beauty in Two Recent Cronenberg Films Cronenberg as Scientist: Anti-essentialism, Sex as Remixing, and the View from Nowhere What happens to Brundle? Problems of Teleportation and Personal Identity in The Fly eXistenZial Angst "Freaks of Nature": Extra-Sensory Perception and the Paranormal in the Films of David Cronenberg Deception and Disorder: Unraveling Cronenberg's Divided Minds Psychological Determinism in the Films of David Cronenberg Self-Creation, Identity and Authenticity: A Study of A History of Violence and Eastern Promises The Fiction of Truth in Fiction: Some Reflections on Semantics and eXistenZ Re(ct)ifying Empty Speech: Cronenberg and the Problem of the First Person The Politics of Mad Science in The Fly and Dead Ringers From 'Impassioned Morality' to 'Bloodless Agnosticism': A Philosophy of David Cronenberg Through the Burroughs/Ballard Axis
