Kingsley's Touch - Hardcover
When an Edinburgh surgeon develops the ability to cure cancer with a single touch, his gift disrupts his quietly ordered life and touches off a struggle between the worlds of Indian mysticism and Western medical science.
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To a pragmatist like Alastair Kingsley, surgery is a science, so when dishevelled Indian mystic Acharya Dhangi identifies Kingsley as the messiah of his ancient Hindu sect, and claims to have empowered him with the healing touch, Kingsley dismisses him as a harmless crank.But evidence is already emerging that defies even Kingsley's practised scepticism: three of his patients exhibit a phenomenon unknown to medical science: incredibly, their bodies seem to be forming a dramatic resistance to cancer.Kingsley clings to the rational tenets of his training until a personal tragedy allows the seeds of superstition to take root. Plagued by self doubt, he embarks on a desperate manhunt for the now elusive Dhangi, generating a vortex of chaos which threatens to destroy not only his own ordered life but the whole delicate structure of his profession.
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John Collee is a doctor and novelist. Originally from Edinburgh he now lives with his family in Sydney, Australia. For some years he wrote a popular newspaper column in the Observer newspaper: "A Doctor Writes". His screenplays include "A Paper Mask" plus the Oscar nominated "Master and Commander" with Peter Weir and Oscar winning "Happy Feet" with George Miller.
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0312456174
- ISBN 13 9780312456177
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages206
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