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Archetypes of Conversion: The Autobiographies of Augustine, Bunyan, and Merton
ISBN: 9781625646941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. About the Contributor(s): Anne Hunsaker Hawkins is Professor Emerita, Penn State College of Medicine, where she served as Professor of Humanities and Director of the Drs. Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine. She is the author of several books, including Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography and A Small, Good Thing: Stories about Children with HIV and Those Who Care for Them. Her numerous published articles concern a wide range of topics, including studies of the relevance of humanistic medicine to Dante's Divine Comedy, Homer's Iliad, Sophocles' Philoctetes, Donne's Devotions, and...
About the Contributor(s): Anne Hunsaker Hawkins is Professor Emerita, Penn State College of Medicine, where she served as Professor of Humanities and ...
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Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781557531261 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study, which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times. As modern medicine has become more scientific and dispassionate, a new literary genre as emerged: pathography, the personal narrative concerning illness, treatment and sometimes death. Hawkins's sensitive reading of numerous pathographies highlights the assumptions, attitudes, and myths that people bring to the medical encounter. One factor emerges again and again in these...
Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study, which ...
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75,83 |
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Reconstructing Illness
ISBN: 9781557530387 / Miękka / 1997 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is built around the strategies used by the suffering patient to cope with illness, focusing on the different myths underlying many pathographies, rebirth and renewal; the paradigms of quest and conquest; mythic formulations of death and dying; and the complex attitudes, assumptions and practices that Hawkins terms "healthy-mindedness".
This is built around the strategies used by the suffering patient to cope with illness, focusing on the different myths underlying many pathographies,...
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68,10 |
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Time to Go: Three Plays on Death and Dying with Commentary on End-Of-Life Issues
ISBN: 9780812215199 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This unusual book presents three prize-winning one-act plays on the hard choices that patients, their families, and their physicians often face at the end of life. The purpose of the volume is to increase awareness and knowledge about advance directives and, beyond that, to facilitate discussion about the many complicated issues surrounding death and dying today. Each play is followed by critical commentary. The introduction provides lucid and succinct explanation of the human, ethical, and legal contexts for the rights of patients in the United States. The volume includes appendices...
This unusual book presents three prize-winning one-act plays on the hard choices that patients, their families, and their physicians often face at the...
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116,78 |
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Teaching Literature and Medicine
ISBN: 9780873523561 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Both the actualities and the metaphorical possibilities of illness and medicine abound in literature: from the presence of tuberculosis in Franz Kafka's fiction or childbed fever in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to disease in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice or in Harold Pinter's A Kind of Alaska; from the stories of Anton Chekhov and of William Carlos Williams, both doctors, to the poetry of nurses derived from their contrasting experiences. These are just a few examples of the cross-pollination between literature and medicine. It is no surprise, then, that courses... Both the actualities and the metaphorical possibilities of illness and medicine abound in literature: from the presence of tuberculosis in Franz Ka... |
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Teaching Literature and Medicine
ISBN: 9780873523578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Both the actualities and the metaphorical possibilities of illness and medicine abound in literature: from the presence of tuberculosis in Franz Kafka's fiction or childbed fever in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to disease in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice or in Harold Pinter's A Kind of Alaska; from the stories of Anton Chekhov and of William Carlos Williams, both doctors, to the poetry of nurses derived from their contrasting experiences. These are just a few examples of the cross-pollination between literature and medicine. It is no surprise, then, that courses... Both the actualities and the metaphorical possibilities of illness and medicine abound in literature: from the presence of tuberculosis in Franz Ka... |
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