What We Bring to the Practice of Medicine

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine
• Personal essays relating key issues and insights from women in medicine What We Bring to the Practice of Medicine brings together a collection of shor... Lees meer

The Health Humanities and Camus's the Plague

Woods Nash

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine
• Using Camus's classic novel as a touchstone for health humanities education Camus's The Plague , first published in 1947, is widely regarded as a clas... Lees meer

The Spirit of the Place

Samuel Shem

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature and Medicine | nr. 14
• A new novel by the national bestselling author of The House of God Samuel Shem's classic novel about medical internship, The House of God, is required... Lees meer

Tenderly Lift Me

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine | nr. 6
• "I approached the study of historical and contemporary nurses with my sleeves rolled up, pencil sharpened, and camera loaded. What draws a person to t... Lees meer

Human Voices Wake Us

Jerald Winakur

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine | nr. 24
• Patients and physicians are adrift in this era of rapidly changing medical paradigms. Perhaps it has always been so, though it seems that lately the d... Lees meer

Learning to Heal

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine
• What is it like to be a student nurse? What are the joys, the stresses, the transcendent moments, the fall-off-your-bed- laughing moments, and the ter... Lees meer

The Widows' Handbook

Lise Menn

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine | nr. 19
• Widows convey their feelings and survival strategies in this compelling anthology The Widows' Handbook is the first anthology of poems by contemporary... Lees meer

The Heart's Truth

Cortney Davis

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine | nr. 17
• Winner of the 2013 Evergreen Book Award Bronze Medal for Health and Wellness The joys, fears, intimacies, and transcendent moments shared by a nurse a... Lees meer

Wider Than the Sky

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine | nr. 11
• A revealing perspective on how Emily Dickinson helps readers cope with suffering Emily Dickinson is known as a poet who presses at the limits of perce... Lees meer

Return to the House of God

The Kent State University Press

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine | nr. 15
• Reflections on Samuel Shem's The House of God and its impact on medical resident education Samuel Shem's The House of God is widely regarded as one of... Lees meer

Lisa's Story

Tom Batiuk

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature and Medicine | nr. 12
• A portion of the proceeds from the sale of Lisa's Story go towards cancer research and education. Visit Lisa's Legacy Fund to learn more or to make a ... Lees meer

Stories of Illness and Healing

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine | nr. 10
• A collection of women's illness narratives Stories of Illness and Healing is the first collection to place the voices of women experiencing illness al... Lees meer

Bodies and Barriers

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine | nr. 13
• Dramatic pieces that raise issues of humanity in medicine Bodies and Barriers offers a collection of dramatic pieces of our time that provide an aesth... Lees meer

Lisa's Story

Tom Batiuk

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine | nr. 12
• A portion of the proceeds from the sale of Lisa's Story go towards cancer research and education. Visit Lisa's Legacy Fund to learn more or to make a ... Lees meer

The Poetry of Nursing

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine
• So much written about literature and medicine has been from the perspective of physicians. But in the last few years nurses have found their voices an... Lees meer

From Reading to Healing

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine
• Selected readings and commentary for the medical humanities Learning how to behave and engage professionally can be one of the most challenging parts ... Lees meer

Our Human Hearts

Albert Howard Carter III

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine | nr. 8
• Reflections on the cultural and biomedical understandings of the human heart "Humans from ancient times have interpreted the heart in many ways: as th... Lees meer

Fourteen Stories

Jay Baruch

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine | nr. 9
• 2007 Book of the Year Honorable Mention, Short Stories, Foreword Magazine "Plunging into one of Jay Baruch's stories is like finding yourself in a bus... Lees meer

Wider Than the Sky

• Hardcover | Engels | Literature and Medicine | nr. 11
• A revealing perspective on how Emily Dickinson helps readers cope with suffering Emily Dickinson is known as a poet who presses at the limits of perce... Lees meer