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This volume examines how the grotesque has shaped the history, practice, and theory of art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The grotesque entered into the mainstream of modern expression during the romantic era. It has been adopted by a succession of artists as a way to push beyond established boundaries, to explore alternate modes of experience and expression, and to challenge the status quo. Examining specific images by a range of artists, such as Ingres, Gauguin, Hoch, de Kooning, P...

Nagasaki during the Tokugawa (1603-1868) was truly Japan's window on the world with its Chinese residences and Deshima island, where Western foreigners, including representatives of the Dutch East India Company, were confined. In 1785 ?tsuki Gentaku (1757-1827) journeyed from the capital to Nagasaki to meet Dutch physicians and the Japanese who acted as their interpreters. Gentaku was himself a physician, but he was also a Dutch studies (rangaku) scholar who passionately believed that European s...

The house of medicine is literally on fire, and the doctors are the ones burning. Physician burnout is epidemic among the various disciplines in medicine. It just doesn't have to be this way. Whether you are just beginning your career in medicine, beginning to burn out, or are already feeling burned out, this book will help you. This guide contains real-life practical information to help prevent or restore damaged lives and careers due to burnout. Is it possible to retain or recapture your perso...

This practical reference takes a multi-occupational approach, aimed at increasing readers' employability. Background information is provided on anatomy and physiology, medical disease processes, medical terminology, medical ethics and legal aspects. In addition, there is employment and job-seeking advice, certification and licensing guidance, and administrative, supervisory and leadership concepts. There are end-of-chapter review questions and summaries, and other features of the text include: l...

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...

Series introducing exciting workplaces, the people who work there and the tools they use.

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Includes athletic trainers, fitness experts, lifeguards, sports broadcasters and announcers, sports physicians, sports scouts, and yoga and Pilates instructors.

What does a paramedic do? Find out the many different tasks a paramedic handles in a typical day. When I'm at Work covers the daily lives of people who work in jobs that help us all

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...

 “People come to us for help. They come for health and strength.” With these simple words David Mendel begins Proper Doctoring, a book about what it means (and takes) to be a good doctor, and for that reason very much a book for patients as well as doctors—which is to say a book for everyone. In crisp, clear prose, he introduces readers to the craft of medicine and shows how to practice it. Discussing matters ranging from the most basic—how doctors should dress and how they should speak to patie...