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32 produkter
Literature and Aging
An Anthology
Av Kohn, Martin Kohn m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
436 kr
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Some of the world’s greatest literature is devoted to expressing the joys and sorrows humans experience as they grow old. New opportunities and challenges appear: retirement, a special closeness with the family, failing health, the recognition of personal mortality, prejudice against the elderly, …
Tyranny of the Normal
An Anthology
Av Carol Donley, Sheryl Buckley
Häftad, 1995
443 kr
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Most cultures ostracize people who do not fit within their norms. They pressure abnormal people to change their appearance, fix what bothers other, or stay out of sight―a pressure Leslie Fiedler has named “The Tyranny of the Normal.” This anthology examines the experiences of those who live outside …
What's Normal?
Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders
Av Carol C Donley, Sheryl Buckley
Häftad, 2000
432 kr
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What's Normal?, examines the issues of "abnormalities" in mental health, intelligence, and sexual behavior. The first section of What's Normal? presents a wide-ranging collection of essays and articles written by renowned clinicians who address clinical, ethical, and social issues related to mental …
Recognitions
Doctors and Their Stories - a Collection of Original Works in Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Center for Literature, Medicine and the Health Care Professions
Av The Kent State University Press, Donley m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
307 kr
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Carol Donley and Martin Kohn believe that ""physicians stand at a unique vantage point as observers of the human condition"". In this text, contributors attempt to prove this assertion through their prose on topics as diverse as the clashes between forces of creation and destruction, institutional …
Chekhov's Doctors
A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Häftad, 2003
283 kr
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In his brief but distinguished life, Anton Chekhov was a doctor, a documentary essayist, an admired dramatist, and a humanitarian. He remains a nineteenth-century Russian literary giant whose prose continues to offer moral insight and to resonate with readers across the world. Chekhov experienced …
Tenderly Lift Me
Nurses Honored, Celebrated, and Remembered
Av The Kent State University Press, Bryner
Häftad, 2004
222 kr
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I approached the study of historical and contemporary nurses with my sleeves rolled up, pencil sharpened, and camera loaded. What draws a person to those who are ill and keeps us at the bedside? Every question I asked the nurses, I asked myself. Heart first, I plunged into stories about historical …
Poetry of Nursing
Poems and Commentaries of Leading Nurse-poets
Av The Kent State University Press, Schaefer
Häftad, 2006
395 kr
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A gathering of caregiver's voices. So much written about literature and medicine has been from the perspective of physicians. But in the last few years nurses are finding their voices, and have began making important contributions to the field of biomedical humanities. These men and women medical …
Our Human Hearts
A Medical and Cultural Journey
Av The Kent State University Press
Häftad, 2006
275 kr
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Our Human Hearts is a nonfiction exploration of the meanings of the human heart as interpreted by two traditions: medical science, which has made possible dramatic cardiac surgery and sophisticated drug treatments, and the much older cultural traditions that view the heart as a repository for …
Fourteen Stories
Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers
Av Jay Baruch
Häftad, 2007
222 kr
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Plunging into one of Jay Baruch's stories is like finding yourself in a busy Emergency Room at two in the morning—here you will meet characters whose lives are urgent and not always what they seem on the surface. Like his characters, Baruch's writing is vibrant and intense, and his vision is …
Stories of Illness and Healing
Women Write Their Bodies
Av Sayantani DasGupta, Marsha Hurst
Häftad, 2007
445 kr
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A collection of women's illness narratives Stories of Illness and Healing is the first collection to place the voices of women experiencing illness alongside analytical writing from prominent scholars in the field of narrative medicine. The collection includes a variety of women's illness …
Wider Than the Sky
Essays and Meditations on the Healing Power of Emily Dickinson
Av The Kent State University Press, Dana m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
254 kr
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Emily Dickinson is known as a poet who presses at the limits of perception and expresses in brilliantly compact, memorable language extremes of both anguish and ecstasy. Her frequent attention to pain and death, like her reclusive tendencies, has led many to dismiss her as ""morbid."" Biographers …
Bodies and Barriers
Dramas of Dis-ease
Av Angela Belli
Häftad, 2008
412 kr
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Dramatic pieces that raise issues of humanity in medicineBodies and Barriers offers a collection of dramatic pieces of our time that provide an aesthetic perspective from which we view today's vital health issues. With each play exploring a different medical crisis, the collection covers a range of …
Lisa's Story
The Other Shoe
Av The Kent State University Press
Inbunden, 2007
333 kr
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Tom Batiuk spent several years as a middle school art teacher before creating the comic strip Funky Winkerbean in 1972. Originally a ""gag-a-day"" comic strip that portrayed life in high school, Funky has evolved into a mature series of real-life stories examining such social issues as teen dating …
Spirit of the Place
Av The Kent State University Press
Inbunden, 2008
412 kr
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A new novel from the author of The House of God Samuel Shema??s classic novel about medical internship, The House of God, is required reading in medical schools throughout the world and is celebrated for its authentic description of medical training and practice, for its Rabelaisian comedy, and for …
Lisa's Story
The Other Shoe
Av The Kent State University Press
Häftad, 2007
234 kr
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Tom Batiuk spent several years as a middle school art teacher before creating the comic strip ""Funky Winkerbean"" in 1972. Originally a ""gag-a-day"" comic strip that portrayed life in high school, Funky has evolved into a mature series of real-life stories examining such social issues as teen …
Wider Than the Sky
Essays and Meditations on the Healing Power of Emily Dickinson
Av The Kent State University Press, Barbara Dana m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
430 kr
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Emily Dickinson is known as a poet who presses at the limits of perception and expresses in brilliantly compact, memorable language extremes of both anguish and ecstasy. Her frequent attention to pain and death, like her reclusive tendencies, has led many to dismiss her as ""morbid."" Biographers …
Return to the ""House of God
Medical Resident Education 1978-2008
Av The Kent State University Press, Martin Kohn m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
315 kr
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This book reflects on Samuel Shem's ""The House of God"" and its impact on medical resident education.Samuel Shem's ""The House of God"" is widely regarded as one of the most influential novels about medical education in the twentieth century. Decades after being published, this satire still raises …
Heart's Truth
Essays on the Art of Nursing
Häftad, 2008
243 kr
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Winner of the 2013 Evergreen Book Award Bronze Medal for Health and Wellness The joys, fears, intimacies, and transcendent moments shared by a nurse and her patients"The Heart's Truth should be required reading at every nursing school in the country. It offers a powerful and moving portrait of what …
Beyond Forgetting
Poetry and Prose About Alzheimer's Disease
Av The Kent State University Press, Hughes
Häftad, 2008
377 kr
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This is a literary collection that illumines the darkness of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease is now estimated to affect one in two persons over the age of eighty and is being diagnosed in people as young as fifty. For the many people now trying to cope with a loved one suffering from this …
Country Doctor Revisited
A Twenty-First Century Reader
Av Therese Zink
Häftad, 2010
376 kr
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An anthology that addresses the changing nature of rural medicine in the United States “These authors courageously document the emotional and literally physical vulnerabilities they experience while delivering care in rural communities. … This book exquisitely illustrates the complexity of ‘dual …
When the Nurse Becomes a Patient
A Story in Words and Images
Inbunden, 2015
267 kr
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In the summer of 2013, Cortney Davis, a nurse practitioner and author who often writes about her interactions with patients, underwent routine one-day surgery. A surgical mishap led to a series of life-altering and life-threatening complications, resulting in two prolonged hospital stays and a …
What's Left Out
Av Jay Baruch
Häftad, 2015
232 kr
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2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Bronze Award for Short FictionShort stories about the complex maze of health careConventional medical narratives often fail to capture the incoherent, surreal, and logic-twisting reality of the contemporary healthcare experience, where mystery, absurdity, and even …
Roses in December
A Story of Love and Alzheimer's
Häftad, 2015
300 kr
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Since its debut in 1987, Crankshaft has engendered reader loyalty and affection with its wry wit, engaging storylines, and identifiable characters. Created by Tom Batiuk and drawn by Chuck Ayers, the strip offers plenty of humour but also tackles serious issues like adult literacy, school violence, …
Roses in December
A Story of Love and Alzheimer's
Inbunden, 2015
476 kr
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Since its debut in 1987, Crankshaft has engendered reader loyalty and affection with its wry wit, engaging storylines, and identifiable characters. Created by Tom Batiuk and drawn by Chuck Ayers, the strip offers plenty of humour but also tackles serious issues like adult literacy, school violence, …
Mysterious Medicine
The Doctor-Scientist Tales of Hawthorne and Poe
Av L. Kerr Dunn
Häftad, 2016
441 kr
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Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe were masters of mystery and fantasy, but they also engaged real controversies surrounding individual health, health care practice, and biomedical research in nineteenth-century America. During this volatile era, when mesmerists, phrenologists, and other …
Keeping Reflection Fresh
A Practical Guide for Clinical Educators
Av Allan Peterkin, Pamela Brett-MacLean
Häftad, 2016
510 kr
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Curriculum committees at health professional schools are determined that faculty engage students in reflection. Reflective practice invites students to inquire into their own thoughts, biases, assumptions, feelings, and behaviors and to reconnect with their own sense of purpose and commitment to …
Health Humanities and Camus's the Plague
Av Woods Nash, Woods Nash
Häftad, 2019
377 kr
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Using Camus's classic novel as a touchstone for health humanities educationCamus's The Plague, first published in 1947, is widely regarded as a classic of 20th-century fiction and as an interesting point of reference for the field of health humanities. Woods Nash's edited collection of essays by …
Human Voices Wake Us
Häftad, 2017
179 kr
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Patients and physicians are adrift in this era of rapidly changing medical paradigms. Perhaps it has always been so, though it seems that lately the dissatisfaction on both sides has intensified. Doctors today are struggling: debt, divorce, substance abuse, burnout, suicide. They succeed or fail on …
Learning to Heal
Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose
Av Jeanne Bryner, Cortney Davis
Häftad, 2018
377 kr
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What is it like to be a student nurse? What are the joys, the stresses, the transcendent moments, the fall-off-your-bedlaughing moments, and the terrors that have to be faced and stared down? And how might nurses, looking back, relate these experiences in ways that bring these memories to life …
From Reading to Healing
Teaching Medical Professionalism Through Literature
Av Susan Stagno, Michael Blackie
Häftad, 2019
441 kr
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Learning how to behave and engage professionally can be one of the most challenging parts of embarking on a career in the medical field. But using the 'power of stories' can teach, heal, and enlighten, encourage the development of empathy, and help healthcare providers appreciate who their patients …
