American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities

American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities
Title American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities PDF eBook
Author Samantha Allen Wright
Publisher Emerald Group Publishing
Pages 183
Release 2020-06-16
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1839096721

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American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities: Writing Contagion bridges a gap in the market by linking the medical humanities with disability studies. It examines how Americans used life writing to record epidemic disease throughout history.

American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities

American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities
Title American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities PDF eBook
Author Samantha Allen Wright
Publisher Emerald Group Publishing
Pages 200
Release 2020-06-16
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1839096748

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American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities: Writing Contagion bridges a gap in the market by linking the medical humanities with disability studies. It examines how Americans used life writing to record epidemic disease throughout history.

Medical Humanities in American Studies

Medical Humanities in American Studies
Title Medical Humanities in American Studies PDF eBook
Author Mita Banerjee
Publisher Universitatsverlag Winter
Pages 0
Release 2018
Genre American literature
ISBN 9783825369064

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This book asks a seemingly simple question: How has the creation of new fields such as medical humanities and narrative medicine changed the humanities themselves, and American Studies more specifically? Turning to the genre of life writing, this study sets out to chart spaces in which a dialogue between the humanities and the life sciences can emerge. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, life writing narratives such as Tito Mukhopadhyay's 'Beyond the Silence', Temple Grandin's 'Thinking in Pictures', or Michael J. Fox's 'Lucky Man' show that self-description has often become inseparable from biomedical terminology. Linking life writing narratives to discussions in bioethics and exploring the links between autobiography and brain research, this book sets out to wonder whether the divide between the "two cultures" of the humanities and the life sciences may not itself have become obsolete.

Life Writing and Schizophrenia

Life Writing and Schizophrenia
Title Life Writing and Schizophrenia PDF eBook
Author Mary Elene Wood
Publisher Brill Rodopi
Pages 353
Release 2013
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9789042036840

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This book examines work in several genres of life writing-autobiography, memoir, case history, autobiographical fiction-focused either on what it means to live with schizophrenia or what it means to understand and 'treat' people who have received that diagnosis.

Five Days at Memorial

Five Days at Memorial
Title Five Days at Memorial PDF eBook
Author Sheri Fink
Publisher Crown
Pages 602
Release 2016-01-26
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0307718972

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning physician and reporter “An amazing tale, as inexorable as a Greek tragedy and as gripping as a whodunit.”—Dallas Morning News After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs. Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink, unspools the mystery, bringing us inside a hospital fighting for its life and into the most charged questions in health care: which patients should be prioritized, and can health care professionals ever be excused for hastening death? Transforming our understanding of human nature in crisis, Five Days at Memorial exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals how ill-prepared we are for large-scale disasters—and how we can do better. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Entertainment Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star WINNER: National Book Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ridenhour Book Prize, American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award

Medical Humanities

Medical Humanities
Title Medical Humanities PDF eBook
Author Thomas R. Cole
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 463
Release 2015
Genre History
ISBN 1107015626

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This textbook uses concepts and methods of the humanities to enhance understanding of medicine and health care.

Research Methods in Health Humanities

Research Methods in Health Humanities
Title Research Methods in Health Humanities PDF eBook
Author Craig M. Klugman
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 361
Release 2019-09-02
Genre Medical
ISBN 0190918527

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Research Methods in Health Humanities surveys the diverse and unique research methods used by scholars in the growing, transdisciplinary field of health humanities. Appropriate for advanced undergraduates, but rich enough to engage more seasoned students and scholars, this volume is an essential teaching and reference tool for health humanities teachers and scholars. Health humanities is a field committed to social justice and to applying expertise to real world concerns, creating research that translates to participants and communities in meaningful and useful ways. The chapters in this field-defining volume reflect these values by examining the human aspects of health and health care that are critical, reflective, textual, contextual, qualitative, and quantitative. Divided into four sections, the volume demonstrates how to conduct research on texts, contexts, people, and programs. Readers will find research methods from traditional disciplines adapted to health humanities work, such as close reading of diverse texts, archival research, ethnography, interviews, and surveys. The book also features transdisciplinary methods unique to the health humanities, such as health and social justice studies, digital health humanities, and community dialogues. Each chapter provides learning objectives, step-by-step instructions, resources, and exercises, with illustrations of the method provided by the authors' own research. An invaluable tool in learning, curricular development, and research design, this volume provides a grounding in the traditions of the humanities, fine arts, and social sciences for students considering health care careers, but also provides useful tools of inquiry for everyone, as we are all future patients and future caregivers of a loved one.