The Clinic and Elsewhere
Title | The Clinic and Elsewhere PDF eBook |
Author | Todd Meyers |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 2013-05-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 029580467X |
Despite increasingly nuanced understandings of the neurobiology of addiction and a greater appreciation of the social and economic conditions that allow drug dependency to persist, there remain many unknowns regarding the individual experience of substance abuse and its treatment. In recent years, novel pharmaceutical therapies have given rise to both new hopes for recovery and renewed fears about drug diversion and abuse. In The Clinic and Elsewhere, Todd Meyers looks at the problems of meaning caused by drug dependency and appraises the changing terms of medical intervention today. By following a group of adolescents from the time they enter drug rehabilitation treatment through their reentry into the outside world-the clinic, their homes and neighborhoods, and other institutional settings-Meyers traces patterns of life that become mediated by pharmaceutical intervention. His focus is not on the drug economy but rather on the therapeutic economy, where new markets, transactions of care, and highly porous conceptions of success and failure come together to shape addiction and recovery. The book is at once a meditative work of anthropology, a demonstration of the theoretical and methodological limits of medical research, and a forceful intervention into the philosophy of therapeutics at the level of the individual. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nfyy21fxp8&list=UUge4MONgLFncQ1w1C_BnHcw&index=12&feature=plc
The Pastoral Clinic
Title | The Pastoral Clinic PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Garcia |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2010-06-08 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0520258290 |
Lyrically evoking the Española Valley and its residents through conversations, encounters, and recollections, The Pastoral Clinic is at once a devastating portrait of addiction, a rich ethnography of place, and an eloquent call for a new ethics of care. --amazon.com.
The Rebirth of the Clinic
Title | The Rebirth of the Clinic PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel P. Sulmasy MD, PhD, OFM |
Publisher | Georgetown University Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2006-05-19 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9781589014626 |
The Rebirth of the Clinic begins with a bold assertion: the doctor-patient relationship is sick. Fortunately, as this engrossing book demonstrates, the damage is not irreparable. Today, patients voice their desires to be seen not just as bodies, but as whole people. Though not willing to give up scientific progress and all it has to offer, they sense the need for more. Patients want a form of medicine that can heal them in body and soul. This movement is reflected in medical school curricula, in which courses in spirituality and health care are taught alongside anatomy and physiology. But how can health care workers translate these concepts into practice? How can they strike an appropriate balance, integrating and affirming spirituality without abandoning centuries of science or unwittingly adopting pseudoscience? Physician and philosopher Daniel Sulmasy is uniquely qualified to guide readers through this terrain. At the outset of this accessible, engaging volume, he explores the nature of illness and healing, focusing on health care's rich history as a spiritual practice and on the human dignity of the patient. Combining sound theological reflection with doses of healthy skepticism, he goes on to describe empirical research on the effects of spirituality on health, including scientific studies of the healing power of prayer, emphasizing that there are reasons beyond even promising research data to attend to the souls of patients. Finally, Sulmasy devotes special attention and compassion to the care of people at the end of life, incorporating the stories of several of his patients. Throughout, the author never strays from the theme that, for physicians, attending to the spiritual needs of patients should not be a moral option, but a moral obligation. This book is an essential resource for scholars and students of medicine and medical ethics and especially medical students and health care professionals.
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
Title | The American Journal of the Medical Sciences PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 952 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Medicine |
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Elsewhere
Title | Elsewhere PDF eBook |
Author | Will Shetterly |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780152052096 |
Ron, a teenage runaway, comes of age among the punk elves and humans of Bordertown, a run-down city on the border between the real world and the magic world of Faerie.
Elsewhere
Title | Elsewhere PDF eBook |
Author | Doron Rabinovici |
Publisher | Haus Publishing |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2014-08-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1908323507 |
Israeli academic Ethan Rosen is a brilliant, opinionated thinker—as is his colleague and rival, Rudi Klausinger, against whom he is pitted in a no-holds-barred competition for the sought-after professorship of cultural studies. So when Rosen condemns an article that he himself wrote, those around them wonder: Is he so confused that he can’t even recognize his own words? A complex and moving novel about modern Jewish identity, Elsewhere takes aim at a number of sensitive issues, including nationalism, Zionism, collective guilt, the Holocaust, and Israel itself. As heartfelt and surprising as it is hilarious, it pokes fun at the things we care about in order to get at what really matters.
Public Health Reports
Title | Public Health Reports PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 882 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Public health |
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