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Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Can Shape Clinical Practice
Psychiatry has lagged behind many clinical specialties in recognizing the importance of narrative for understanding and effectively treating disease. With this book, Bradley Lewis makes the challenging and compelling case that psychiatrists need to promote the significance of narrative in their prac... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: The Birth of Postpsychiatry
Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry looks at contemporary psychiatric practice from a variety of critical perspectives ranging from Michel Foucault to Donna Haraway. This contribution to the burgeoning field of medical humanities contends that psychiatry's move away from a theory-bas... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Depression: Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities
We live in an era of depression, a condition that causes extensive suffering for individuals and families and saps our collective productivity. Yet there remains considerable confusion about how to understand depression. Depression: Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities looks at the varied an... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Health Humanities Reader
by Mark Vonnegut • Audrey Shafer • Martha Stoddard Holmes • Howard Brody • Jeff Nisker • Bradley Lewis • Rosemarie Tong • Ian Williams • Sander L. Gilman • Rafael Campo • Daniel Goldberg • Michael Rowe • Thomas R. Cole • Alice Dreger • Joseph N. Straus • Jonathan M. Metzl • Arthur W. Frank • E. Ann Kaplan • Rebecca Hester • John Lantos • Shelley Wall • Alan Bleakley • Marjorie Levine-Clark • Michael Sappol • Mark Clark • Professor Therese Jones • Professor Delese Wear • Professor Lester D. Friedman • David H. Flood • Rhonda L. Soricelli • Lisa Keränen • Martin F. Norden • Professor Lisa I. Iezzoni • Felicia Cohn • Martha Montello • Amy Haddad • Rebecca Garden • Jack Coulehan • Professor Bernice Hausman • Gretchen A. Case • Allen Peterkin • Susan M. Squier • Sayantani DasGupta • Maren Grainger-Monsen • Benjamin Saxton • Jerald Winakur • Anne Hudson Jones • Tod Chambers • Raymond C. Barfield • Lucy Selman • Jeffrey P. Bishop • Catherine Belling • Paul Root Wolpe • Professor Allison B. Kavey • Julie M. Aultman • Michael Blackie • Erin Gentry Lamb • Jay BaruchOver the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Buddhism
An enlightened look at the major principles and tenets espoused by Buddha, Zen-ful tips for applying Buddhist philosophy to everyday living, and inspiring thoughts for understanding the enlightened thought and ritual of Buddhism.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Invasive Species and Global Climate Change
by John Thompson • Andrew Guitierrez • Arne Witt • Randy Westbrooks • Elsa Cleland • Lewis Ziska • Cascade Sorte • Matthew Barnes • Toni Ditommaso • Bethany Bradley • Dana Blumenthal • Jeffery Dukes • Hilda Diaz-Soltero • Jacques Regniere • Karen Garrett • Li Bo • Jil Swearingen • Kevin Hughes • Makra Laszlo • Tom StohlgrenThis book examines what will happen to global invasive species, including plants, animals and pathogens with current and expected man-made climate change. The effects on distribution, success, spread and impact of invasive species are considered for a series of case studies from a number of countrie... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014