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

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

The Country Doctor Revisited

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine
• An anthology that addresses the changing nature of rural medicine in the United States "These authors courageously document the emotional and literall... 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

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

Beyond Words

Kathlyn Conway

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine
• "Kathlyn Conway opens primordial questions about the shattering events of illness through close readings of selected illness narratives, proposing tha... Lees meer

Leaving Tinkertown

Tanya Ward Goodman

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine
• When Tanya Ward Goodman came home to New Mexico to visit her dad at the end of 1996, he was fifty-five years old and just beginning to show symptoms o... Lees meer

La Clínica

David P Sklar

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine
• In 1972, when the world around him was making little sense, David Sklar left in his senior year of college to volunteer at a community clinic in rural... 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

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

The Young Neurosurgeon

Paul Edward Kaloostian

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Medicine
• In the ER, the OR, and in the waiting room where the doctors deliver heart stopping news to the families of their patients, a neurosurgeon's apprentic... Lees meer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Return to the House of God

• 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