Christine Montross: 2 books
Falling Into the Fire
A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Falling Into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross’s thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her practice. The majority of the patients Montross treats in Falling Into the Fire are seen in the locked inpatient wards of a psychiatric hospital;...
Body of Work
Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2007
A "gleaming, humane" (The New York Times Book Review) memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and a first-year medical student
Medical student Christine Montross felt nervous standing outside the anatomy lab on her first day of class. Entering a room with stainless-steel...