Narrative Medicine
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- Always on Call
- When Illness Turns Families into Caregivers
Combining powerful personal stories with astute analysis and recommendations, Always on Call reveals the hidden struggles of the more than 25 million family caregivers in the United State...
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- At Work in the Field of Birth
- Midwfery Narratives of Nature, Tradition, and Home
At Work in the Field of Birth is an ethnographic study of midwifery in Canada in the wake of its historic transition from the margins as a grassroots social movement devoted to low-tech, ...
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- Bodies of Knowledge
- The Medicalization of Reproduction in Greece
Recipient of the 2006 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize for the best project in the area of medicine.
The author, a second-generation Greek American, returned to Greece with h...
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- Dementia Caregivers Share Their Stories
- A Support Group in a Book
- Replete with the powerful words of experienced caregivers, Dementia Caregivers Share Their Stories is an essential guidebook for anyone who must attend to the needs of a loved one suffering ...
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- Healing by Heart
- Clinical and Ethical Case Stories of Hmong Families and Western Providers
- Healing by Heart is a book of stories--stories of people's search for culturally responsive health care from U.S. providers. It offers resources to providers and institutions committed to de...
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- In Recovery
- The Making of Mental Health Policy
- For hundreds of years, people diagnosed with mental illness were thought to be hopeless cases, destined to suffer inevitable deterioration. Beginning in the early 1990s, however, providers and poli...
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- It Shouldn't Be This Way
- The Failure of Long-Term Care
- The failure of long-term care is the country's best-kept embarrassing secret. Almost every adult in the United States will either enter a nursing home or have to deal with a parent or other relativ...
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- Midwives' Tales
- Stories of Traditional and Professional Birthing in Samoa
- The result of a ten-year collaboration between Australian and Samoan researchers and midwives, this book compiles the first-person stories of several generations of Samoan midwives, both those who ...
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- The Moon in the Water
- Reflections on an Aging Parent
- Named a Best Book of 2008 by Library Journal
In a series of moving vignettes, the author begins by describing a particular representation of Water-Moon Kuan Yin, a Buddhist teac...
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- Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery
- Heart operations today are quite common and relatively low-risk, but in the beginning it was just the opposite. Cardiac operations were reserved for desperately ill patients. The author documents...
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- Symptoms of Unknown Origin
- A Medical Odyssey
- For years after graduating from medical school, Dr. Clifton K. Meador assumed that symptoms of the body, when obviously not imaginary, indicate a disease of the body--something to be treated with d...
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- To Give Their Gifts
- Health, Community, and Democracy
- Democracy needs the extraordinary efforts of ordinary people. The experiences of the twelve creative community health leaders, which this book presents, provide excellent examples of innovative dem...
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- Treating the Aching Heart
- A Guide to Depression, Stress, and Heart Disease
- Why is depression bad for heart disease? And how does heart disease contribute to depression? And why is treatment for depressed people with heart disease so often inadequate? Through personal vi...
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- The Vaccine Narrative
- The Salk vaccine seemed like a miracle to parents whose children were threatened with the scourge of polio. With its protection from polio, came also a story line-there were heroic researchers who...
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- Wheeling and Dealing
- Living with Spinal Cord Injury
- Before his motorcycle accident, Travis saw himself becoming a pro football player. Now, paralyzed from the nipple down, he says, "At times it's a pain in the ass-literally and figuratively. But i...
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- Healing Invisible Wounds
- Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World
- In these personal reflections on his thirty years of clinical work with victims of genocide, torture, and abuse in the United States, Cambodia, Bosnia, and other parts of the world, Richard Mollica...
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- The Secret
- Love, Marriage, and HIV
- A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2010
For many women around the world, their greatest risk of HIV infection comes from having sex with the very person with whom they a... -
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- A Life of Control
- Stories of Living with Diabetes
- Diabetes happens in a life that already has a story. This book, composed of nearly forty personal narratives, based on taped interviews, about the lives of actual patients with diabetes, draws upo...
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- Bioethics Mediation
- A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions, Revised and Expanded Edition
- Bioethics Mediation offers stories about patients, families, and health care providers enmeshed in conflict as they wrestle with decisions about life and death. It provides guidance for thos...
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