Doctors’ Wives.
first edition
1967 · Garden City, NY
by Slaugher, Frank G.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Octavo, back cloth, gilt letters, uncut, 384 pp. Fine, in a Very Good, price-clipped dust jacket with edgewear and several small chips. “Doctors’ Wives’ Disease is not an imaginary ailment. For, in the closed, in-bred society of a great medical center, these women, the wives of superbly successful physicians, are driven by loneliness, boredom, and frustration along forbidden pathways. And alcohol, drugs, and promiscuity become their alternatives to despair...Beneath this scandalous and passionate picture of human weakness, is a tale, perhaps even more striking: and that is Dr. Slauther’s brilliant, minute, expert’s picture of the urgent business of an ultramodern hospital. His descriptions -- in fascinating detail -- of a heart operation and a brain operation, are breathtakingly suspenseful, and based on the most advanced medial and surgical knowledge.” (Inventory #: 30418s)