Medical Meeting
Mildred Walker author Robert Giroux editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Published:1st Mar '97
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Dr. Henry Baker and his wife, Liz, have spent twelve years developing a cure for tuberculosis. Working at a lab in their home, they have persisted without adequate funding and assistance, sacrificing new clothes and vacations to make their contribution to humanity. Tests have so far proved very encouraging. At the beginning of Medical Meeting they are ready to announce their discovery at a convention in Chicago. What promises to be a reward for years of work, a great moment to savor, turns into a disaster, professionally and possibly personally.
“People who wail ‘I don’t see any reason why doctors don’t discover a cure for ——’ would do well to read Medical Meeting. Mildred Walker’s quiet, tragic novel of a young research scientist and his wife is a penetrating account of one of the major reasons [for failure].”—New York Times
“Walker’s integrity, understanding and unerring dramatic sense plus sound construction make this superior fiction.”—Library Journal
“Filled with knowing touches, clear sidelights on human nature, and specific clinical details, this provides far better than average reading.”—Kirkus
ISBN: 9780803297883
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 340g
280 pages