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. Hawkinss 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 case studies : the tendency in contemporary medical practice to focus primarily not on the needs of the individual who is sick but on the condition that we call disease. Recommended for medical practitioners, the clergy, caregivers, students of popular culture, and the general reader, Reconstructing Illness demonstrates that only when we hear both the doctors and the patients voice will we have a medicine that is truly human.
El Sol, Símbolo De Continuidad Y Permanencia: Un Estudio… Text in Spanish The purpose of this study is to analyze the soliform figures in schematic cave paintings. The author presents research on all the global factors relevant to the study of these figures (technological, typological, stylistic, semiotic, astronomical, anthropological and landscape) and their relationship with the whole of schematic…
Tomando Control De Su Salud A culturally sensitive Spanish translation of Living a Healthy Live with Chronic Conditions. Our readers learn how to become active self-managers through problem solving, decision making, goal setting, and action planning. This book shares these tools of self management as well as the basics of healthy eating, exercise, relaxation, communication,…
Self Pleasure In addition to the importance of sexual intercourse for reproduction, this activity is also pivotal for numerous other aspects of any committed relationship. Sex is about pleasure, intimacy, and sexual expressions and it brings positive emotional, mental, physical, intellectual, and social advantages. Drawing from scientific facts and universal personal experience,…
12 Leyes De Los Grandes Empresarios The 12 laws of great entrepreneurs: 1 Dont do it just to make money, but because is what you love. The secret to entrepreneurial success is to decide what you want, make a good plan, and work with all your might to achieve it. 2 Study success rules: you need…
Open Open-ended Logic: Space-Time-Information (Composition -> Position -> Disposition) defends the new, underlying architectonic logic (spatial-temporal in conception) that has emerged within contemporary culture. In accordance with a shared terrain of inquiry, which represent a whole series of decisive experiences from the past fifteen years, this new logic could be considered…
Research Challenges For Anglophone Studies In The 21st Century Once again young researchers of Spanish universities in the field of English Studies unite their efforts to present a new volume of excellent collaborations under the title of RESEARCH CHALLENGES FOR ANGLOPHONE STUDIES IN THE 21st CENTURY. The title not only does not disappoint readers’ expectations, but also responds to…
