A meditation on in vitro fertilization that expands and complicates the stories we tell about pregnancy. Medical interventions become an exercise in patience, desire, and delirium in this intimate account of bodily transformation and disruption. In candid, graceful prose, Isabel Zapata gives voice to the strangeness and complexities of conception and motherhood that are rarely discussed publicly. Zapata frankly addresses the misogyny she experienced during fertility treatments, explores the f...
We have learned a great deal about keeping death at bay through medical technology. We are less well informed, however, about how to face death and how to understand or articulate the emotional and spiritual needs of the dying. This book brings together medical experts and authorities in the humanities to reflect on medical, cultural and religious responses to death. The book should help both medical personnel and patients to view death less as an adversary and more as a defining part of life. I...
Illness and the Limits of Expression (Conversations in Medicine and Society)
by Kathlyn Conway
This is a thought-provoking exploration of illness, writing, and the limits of language. A sophisticated literary, psychoanalytic, and philosophical treatise on illness and narrative form, "Illness and the Limits of Expression" investigates the failings of standard survivor literature by asking how language can be used to express the catastrophic experience of disease. While battling three cancers herself, Kathlyn Conway became familiar with the "success" narratives of disability and sickness -...
A diagnosis of cancer evokes varied responses. Some react with disbelief, some with anger. Some blame their stars, some their genes. Most carry a heavy load of helplessness; a few cling to the hope that, with treatment, a cure may happen. This book by a cancer surgeon portrays a first-person account of people who came to terms with their cancer. These true stories are narratives of their hopes and fears, their understanding of the disease and how it changed their lives and the lives of those aro...
The Pen and the Stethoscope is a unique collection of fiction and non-fiction by doctor - writers that gives us a fascinating look behind the doctor's mask and gets inside the minds of those who deal with enormous existential issues and traumatic situations on a daily basis. It is through writing that many doctors have plumbed the depths and richness of their experience. This book takes a critical look at doctors' close observations on their working life. With a foreword by Jerome Groopman, con...
Achieving Anti-Racism in Medical Education - Elsevier E-Book on Vitalsource (Retail Access Card)
by Leona Hess, Ann-Gel Palermo, and David Muller
Surgical Operations with Local Anesthesia (1916)
by Arthur Emanuel Hertzler
Traite de l'Origine Des Glaires Avec La Methode A Suivre Pour Les Guerir Soi-Meme. 8e Edition
by Guillie-S
Laced with a delicate (and occasionally indelicate) humour, this book is for anyone with a taste for the bizarre, the exotic and the preposterous. It is also a rich source of fascinating scientific lore and medical information: therapies involving bacon rashers, toads and other odd items; bizarre ailments such as fishy odour syndrome, priapism and colonic crunch; remarkable feats of the human body, including clearing a blockage with a snake, brandy as a cure for rabies, imaginative forms of self...
Microorganisms Associated With Disease (1904)
by Sydney John Hickson
Traitement Des Ulceres Calleux Par Les Scarifications Radiees
by Chaussat-A
A Manual of Normal Histology and Organography (1917)
by Charles Hill
