Lexington Books, 2020. — 329 p. Even as life expectancies increase, increasing numbers of people are living with chronic illness and pain than ever before. Long-term self-management of chronic conditions involves negotiating the intersections of personal life choices, community and workplace structures, and family roles. Medical Humanism, Chronic Illness, and the Body in Pain:...
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. — 196 p. Medical systems function in specific cultural contexts. It is common to speak of the medicine of China, Japan, India, and other nation-states. Yet almost all formalized medical systems claim universal applicability and, thus, are ready to cross the cultural boundaries that contain them. There is a critical tension,...
Manchester: Carcanet, 2015. — 455 p. In this wide-reaching abecedarium, doctor and poet Iain Bamforth dissects the conflict of values embodied in what we call medicine—never entirely a science and no longer quite the art it used to be. Bamforth brings to bear his experience of medicine from around the world, from the hightech American Hospital of Paris to community health...
Routledge, 2024. — 410 p. The Routledge Handbook of Medicine and Poetry draws on an international selection of authors to ask what the cultures of poetry and medicine may gain from reciprocal critical engagement. The volume celebrates interdisciplinary inquiry, critique, and creative expansion with an emphasis upon amplifying provocative and marginalized voices. This carefully...
Routledge, 2019. — 468 p. — ISBN-10 0815374615. This authoritative new handbook offers a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the state of the medical humanities globally, showing how clinically oriented medical humanities, the critical study of medicine as a global historical and cultural phenomenon, and medicine as a force for cultural change can inform each other....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 225 p. What occurs within coma? What does the coma patient experience? How does the patient perceive the world outside of coma, if at all? The simple answer to these questions is that we don’t know. Yet the sheer volume of literary and media texts would have us believe that we do. This book examines representations of coma and brain injury across a...
New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 89 p. Clinical communication underpins safe patient care. The effective health professional sees illness through the patient’s eyes and understands what matters most to him or her. Effectiveness means gathering hard clinical data about the physical changes affecting the patient, understanding why the patient is concerned, conveying this to...
New York: Medical Information Science Reference, 2021. — 288 p. Recent evidence indicates that humor is an important aspect of a person's health, and studies have shown that increased levels of humor help with stress, pain tolerance, and overall patient health outcomes. Still, many healthcare providers are hesitant to use humor in their practice for fear of offense or failure....
Routledge, 2020. — 188 p. — ISBN 978-0-8153-5606-6. In recent years, the transitioning body has become the subject of increasing scholarly, medical, and political interest. This interdisciplinary collection seeks to enable productive dialogue about bodily transformation and its many potential meanings and possibilities. Recent high-profile sex transitions, such as Bruce...
Routledge, 2023. — 269 p. This book explores how dementia studies relates to dementia's growing public profile and corresponding research economy. The book argues that a neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia positions dementia as a syndrome of cognitive decline, caused by discrete brain diseases, distinct from ageing, widely misunderstood by the public, that will one day be...
2nd ed. — Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. — 25 p. Since it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portrait of a so-called “remission society” of those who suffer from some type of illness or disability and a cogent analysis of their stories within a larger...
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2022. — 261 p. Global Health for All trains a critical lens on global health to share the stories that global health’s practices and logics tell about 20th and 21st century configurations of science and power. An ethnography on multiple scales, the book focuses on global health’s key epistemic and therapeutic practices like localization,...
Transaction Publishers, 2015. — 277 p. The humanities in higher education are too often labeled as impractical and are not usually valued in today's marketplace. Yet in professional fields, such as the health sciences, interest in what the humanities can offer has increased. Advocates claim the humanities offer health care professionals greater insight into how to work with...
John Hopkins University Press, 2019. — 352 p. In 1900, most Americans gave birth and died at home, with minimal medical intervention. By contrast, most Americans today begin and end their lives in hospitals. The medicalization we now see is due in large part to federal and state policies that draw patients away from community-based providers, such as birth centers and hospice...
Nordic Academic Press, 2020. — 254 p. — ISBN 978-91-88909-34-3. Medical knowledge is always in motion. It moves from the lab to the office, from a press release to a patient, from an academic journal to a civil servant’s desk and then on to a policymaker. These movements matter: value judgements on the validity of certain forms of knowledge determine the direction of clinical...
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 225 p. Diagnosis: Truths and Tales shares stories written from the perspectives of both those who receive diagnoses and those who deliver them, and confronts how we address illness in our personal lives and in popular media. List of Illustrations Foreword: Giving the Story Back Acknowledgments Introduction A Touch of the Flu: The...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. — 361 p. 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...
Cham: Springer, 2022. — 201 p. Foreword About the Book About the Editors The Importance of Training Introduction to Evidence-Based Training Training Is Not Always the Solution Education Versus Training Aligning Training with Mission and Vision Why Is Training Important? The Impact of Inadequate Training The Impact of Inadequate Training The Ethical Responsibilities of Training...
Springer, 2021. — 130 p. This is the first book to explore the epistemology and ethics of advanced imaging tests, in order to improve the critical understanding of the nature of knowledge they provide and the practical consequences of their utilization in healthcare. Advanced medical imaging tests, such as PET and MRI, have gained center stage in medical research and in...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. — 289 p. From Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Price We Pay-an eye-opening expose of the conventional medical “wisdom” that has led the public to harm, and how we can correct this. One in thirteen children in the United States today has a peanut allergy. Why? In 2000, the American Academy of...
Left Coast Press, 2011. — 296 p. — ISBN: 978-1-61132-097-8. Surface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people remake themselves after catastrophic bodily change—the loss of limbs, the loss of function, the loss or replacement of organs. Against a sweeping cultural backdrop of art, popular culture, and the history of science and medicine, Manderson uses...
Springer, 2023. — 229 p. — (Integrated Science 16). — ISBN 978-3-031-27944-7. This volume discusses the definitional problems and conceptual strategies involved in defining the human. By crossing the boundaries of disciplines and themes, it offers a transdisciplinary platform for exploring the new ideas of the human and adjusting to the dynamic in which we are plunged. The...
New York: Springer, 2016. — 298 p. Promotes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of health communication According to the Joint Commission, over 75% of all serious medical errors in this country result from miscommunication. Based in these adverse realities and the author philosophy that communication is a clinical skill integral to effective health care delivery, this...
Cham: Springer, 2022. — 155 p. Historically, communication was described as a secondary, or ‘soft skill’ for surgeons. Now, astute communication, both with patients and with colleagues, forms a fundamental element of holistic surgical practice and comprises a core component of the ‘Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons’ that are increasingly recognised in modern surgical practice....
Cham: Springer, 2022. — 192 p. This book proposes an integrated and interdisciplinary approach recording and interpreting the human experience of illness, disability, care, and medical intervention. In our age of deeply technologically-driven medicine, it is crucial to re-establish and promote the neglected relationship between medicine and the arts. This textbook contains...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. — 589 p. This timely Handbook provides an essential guide to the major topics, perspectives, and scholars in the sociology of health and medicine. Contributors prove the immense value of a sociological understanding of central health and medical concerns, including public health, the COVID-19 pandemic, and new medical technologies. Through...
New York: Routledge, 2018. — 277 p. Medicine, Health and Being Human begins a conversation to explore how the medical has defined us: that is, the ways in which perspectives of medicine and health have affected cultural understandings of what it means to be human. With chapters that span from the early modern period through to the contemporary world, and are drawn from a range...
Amsterdam: Springer, 2011. — 358 p. Physician-scientists are unusual creatures. While we are drawn to the clinical challenges of our patients, we are also drawn to the opportunities that our patients’ medical problems bring to science. This book contains the unique experiences and encounters that drew 21 accomplished physician-scientists to this profession. These personal...
Duke University Press, 2004. — 367 p. Embryo adoptions, stem cells capable of transforming into any cell in the human body, intra- and inter-species organ transplantation—these and other biomedical advances have unsettled ideas of what it means to be human, of when life begins and ends. In the first study to consider the cultural impact of the medical transformation of the...
3rd edition. — Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2019. — 634 p. — ISBN: 9781284141429 Communication Skills for the Health Care Professional, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide to improving patient outcomes through relationship building and the use of information technology to foster communication between patients, families, and health providers.The author examines the context for...
University of Washington Press, 2018. — 280 p. While in the ICU with a near-fatal case of pneumonia, Brett Walker was asked, Do you have a family history of illness? a standard and deceptively simple question that for Walker, a professional historian, took on additional meaning and spurred him to investigate his family s medical past. In this deeply personal narrative, he...
Edinburgh University Press, 2016. — 700 p. In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the...
Монография. — Саратов: Саратовский государственный медицинский университет им. В.И. Разумовского, 2018. — 100 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7213-0695-2. Монография посвящена исследованию социально-гуманитарных аспектов трансформаций современной медицины, происходящих вследствие ее вхождения в пространство технонауки и включения в общую современную парадигму трансдисциплинарности....
М.: Советская Россия, 1988. — 176 с Марки, медали, монеты, открытки - вот неполный перечень предметов, составляющих уникальную коллекцию автора. На материале этой коллекции, насчитывающей свыше пятнадцати тысяч экспонатов, и написана книга. В ней нашли отражение важнейшие события в истории медицины - борьба с чумой, холерой, малярией, а также выдающиеся достижения отечественных...
Волгоград : Изд-во ВолгГМУ, 2020. — 428 с. В справочнике приводятся сведения о современных и устаревших названиях ряда заболеваний и синдромов различного профиля, краткое описание этих патологических состояний. Справочник является мультидисциплинарным, предназначен для внеаудиторной работы студентов медицинского вуза, обучающихся по специальностям «Лечебное дело», «Педиатрия».
М.: МГМСУ, 2014. — 224 с., 26 ил.— ISBN 978-5-9903991-4-3. Сборник литературных произведений русских и зарубежных авторов на тему стоматологии. Введение Приветствие О.О. Янушевича, ректора МГМСУ им. А.И. Евдокимова Гуманитарные науки в истории медицины и стоматологии Детские страхи Ганс Христиан Андерсен. Тетушка Зубная боль Марк Твен. Отрывок из романа «Приключения Тома...
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