Stories Of Sickness
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Author |
: Howard Brody |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2002-10-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199759798 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199759790 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stories of Sickness by : Howard Brody
Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives. To understand the human meaning of illness, we therefore must turn to the stories we tell about illness, suffering, and medical care. Stories of Sickness explores the many dimensions of what illness means to the sufferers and to those around them, drawing on depictions of illness in great works of literature and in nonfiction accounts. The exploration is primarily philosophical but incorporates approaches from literature and from the medical social sciences. When it was first published in 1987, Stories of Sickness helped to inaugurate a renewed interest in the importance of narrative studies in health care. For the Second Edition the text has been thoroughly revised and significantly expanded. Four almost entirely new chapters have been added on the nature, complexities, and rigor of narrative ethics and how it is carried out. There is also an additional chapter on maladaptive ways of being sick that deals in greater depth with disability issues. Health care professionals, students of medicine and bioethics, and ordinary people coping with illness, no less than scholars in the health care humanities and social sciences, will find much value in this volume. Unique Features: *Philosophically sophisticated yet clearly written and easily accessible *Interdisciplinary approach--combines philosophy, literature, health care, social sciences *Contains many fascinating stories and vignettes of illness drawn from both fiction and nonfiction *A new and comprehensive overview of the "hot topic" of narrative ethics in medicine and health care
Author |
: Sayantani DasGupta |
Publisher |
: Literature and Medicine |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106018986130 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stories of Illness and Healing by : Sayantani DasGupta
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 narratives--poetry, essays, short fiction, short drama, analyses, and transcribed oral testimonies--as well as traditional analytic essays about themes and issues raised by the narratives. Stories of Illness and Healing bridges the artificial divide between women's lives and scholarship in gender, health, and medicine. The authors of these narratives are diverse in age, ethnicity, family situation, sexual orientation, and economic status. They are doctors, patients, spouses, mothers, daughters, activists, writers, educators, and performers. The narratives serve to acknowledge that women's illness experiences are more than their diseases, that they encompass their entire lives. The pages of this book echo with personal accounts of illness, diagnosis, and treatment. They reflect the social constructions of women's bodies, their experiences of sexuality and reproduction, and their roles as professional and family caregivers. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Stories of Illness and Healing draws the connection between women's suffering and advocacy for women's lives.
Author |
: Stephen R. King |
Publisher |
: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2016-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1540760405 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781540760401 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sickness by : Stephen R. King
Possibly the darkest and most shocking six scary short stories yet ever created from bestselling author Stephen R. King. An instinct of passion and disrespect for decency and humanity fill this volume of life experiences we mostly keep in the back of our conscience, never wanting to bring to the forefront. Its truly sick!
Author |
: Rita Charon Professor of Clinical Medicine Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2006-03-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199759859 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199759855 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Narrative Medicine : Honoring the Stories of Illness by : Rita Charon Professor of Clinical Medicine Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine, primary care medicine, narratology, and the study of doctor-patient relationships, narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness. By placing events in temporal order, with beginnings, middles, and ends, and by establishing connections among things using metaphor and figural language, narrative medicine helps doctors to recognize patients and diseases, convey knowledge, accompany patients through the ordeals of illness--and according to Rita Charon, can ultimately lead to more humane, ethical, and effective health care. Trained in medicine and in literary studies, Rita Charon is a pioneer of and authority on the emerging field of narrative medicine. In this important and long-awaited book she provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the conceptual principles underlying narrative medicine, as well as a practical guide for implementing narrative methods in health care. A true milestone in the field, it will interest general readers, and experts in medicine and humanities, and literary theory.
Author |
: Nikki Abramson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 2020-05-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0578631431 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780578631431 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Can't Someone Fix What Ails Me? by : Nikki Abramson
The two people who compiled (and contributed) their own stories have over a dozen chronic illnesses between them. They and the other 19 writers want you to know what it's like. How do they, as "chronics," deal with walking into a medical office and being called "odd" or "complex" or "interesting?" How much should they tell others-and whose business is it anyway? Where do they find the patience to try medication after medication and deal with the unpleasant side effects? How do they stay positive in the face of never-ending symptoms and no cure? How do they deal with the fact that they seem okay, and look great on the outside, while silently suffering inside? As they seek answers and solutions, they ask: Can't Someone Fix What Ails Me? It's all very tough to handle. As you read these stories, see the writers' resilience, strength and hope.
Author |
: Dinty W. Moore |
Publisher |
: University of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 207 |
Release |
: 2019-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781496203601 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1496203607 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bodies of Truth by : Dinty W. Moore
2019 Foreword INDIES Award, Gold for Anthologies “Medicine still contains an oral tradition, passed down in stories: the stories patients tell us, the ones we tell them, and the ones we tell ourselves,” writes contributor Madaline Harrison. Bodies of Truth continues this tradition through a variety of narrative approaches by writers representing all facets of health care. And, since all of us have been or will be touched by illness or disability—our own or that of a loved one—at some point in our lives, any reader of this anthology can relate to the challenges, frustrations, and pain—both physical and emotional—that the contributors have experienced. Bodies of Truth offers perspectives on a wide array of issues, from food allergies, cancer, and neurology to mental health, autoimmune disorders, and therapeutic music. These experiences are recounted by patients, nurses, doctors, parents, children, caregivers, and others who attempt to articulate the intangible human and emotional factors that surround life when it intersects with the medical field.
Author |
: Arthur Kleinman |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 1988-04-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015026902752 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Illness Narratives The by : Arthur Kleinman
Based on twenty years of clinical experience studying and treating chronic illness, a Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist argues that diagnosing illness is an art neglected by modern medical training, and presents a case for bridging the gap between patient and doctor. [NF].
Author |
: Judith Walzer Leavitt |
Publisher |
: Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages |
: 606 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 029915324X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780299153243 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (4X Downloads) |
Synopsis Sickness and Health in America by : Judith Walzer Leavitt
Adds 21 new essays and drops some that appeared in the 1984 edition (first in 1978) to reflect recent scholarship and changes in orientation by historians. Adds entirely new clusters on sickness and health, early American medicine, therapeutics, the art of medicine, and public health and personal hygiene. Other discussions are updated to reflect such phenomena as the growing mortality from HIV, homicide, and suicide. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author |
: Frossya |
Publisher |
: I-AHN CREATIVE |
Total Pages |
: 39 |
Release |
: 2022-09-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9788998659097 |
ISBN-13 |
: 8998659093 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis IN LOVE AND IN SICKNESS by : Frossya
In Love and In Sickness is an anthology of four fictional stories narrated by a young female aspiring to be a medical professional, living and traveling in a foreign land. The first chapter, Heart-Chilling Empathy, deals with themes of homelessness, homesickness, societal support and preventable diseases like polio myelitis. The second chapter throws light on painful life in highly modern city. The narrator themes of love, loss and poverty and hatred are ubiquitous. And also emphasizes the fact that life goes on despite the pain of a chronic disease. The third chapter is a sudden realization that the youthful years and the decisions made then have profound and sometimes painful effects on old age. The final story is that of personal growth and the sickness dealt with is of a more abstract nature. The narrator slowly becomes a better person as the book evolves.
Author |
: Tony Copperfield |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1906308144 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781906308148 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sick Notes by : Tony Copperfield
Medicine.