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Richard Rapport

Richard Rapport is Clinical Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine and attends at Harborview Medical Center, a level-one trauma center operated by the university in Seattle. He is author of Physician: The Life of Paul Beeson and Nerve Endings: The Discovery of the Synapse.

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To Die of Having Lived

A neurological surgeon reflects on what patients and their families should and should not do when the end draws near

by Richard Rapport | Monday, March 01, 2010

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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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