Five Patients: The Hospital Explained

Overview:

  • Title: Five Patients: The Hospital Explained
  • Author: Michael Crichton
  • Year: Unknown
  • ISBN-10: 0345354648
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books
  • Price: $6.99
  • Pages: xxii+246
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Type: Non-fiction
  • Title Reference: Five Patients: The Hospital Explained
  • Notes:
    • Eleventh Ballantine Books mass-market paperback edition per the numberline (20—11) that is found on this book's copyright page.
    • There is no printing date for this printing, but the new foreword ("Author's Note 1994")shows the printing date to be after 1994.
    • First Ballantine Books mass-market paperback: February 1989.
    • C$7.99 in Canada.
    • Excerpts of this book originally appeared in the February 1970 issue of the Atlantic Magazine while a condensed version appeared in the July 1970 The Ladies Home Journal. There was also a serialized version that ran in 1970 in the Register & Tribune Syndicate.
    • Per ISFDB's protocol, contents of original non-fiction books not listed, but this book also has a new author's note (p ix), a foreword (p xvii), acknowledgments (p xxi), an afterword (p 225), a glossary (p 229), and a bibliography (p 237).