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  • Medical Humanities Companion, Volume 4

    by Jill Gordon, Jane MacNaughton, Carl Edvard Rudeback ...
    This fourth volume in the Companion to Medical Humanities series contemplates the challenge of the prognosis, of looking ahead, wondering what will happen, and attempting to make sense of life and death. ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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    Honoring the Stories of Illness

    by Rita Charon ...
    Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine, primary care medicine, narratology, and the study of doctor-patient relationships, narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize, absorb, ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Why Do People Get Ill?

    Exploring the Mind-body Connection

    by Darian Leader, David Corfield ...
    'Well-argued, thought-provoking . . . will make you think twice before reaching for the painkillers' Daily MailHave you ever wondered why we get ill? Can our thoughts and feelings worsen or even cause conditions like heart disease, cancer or asthma? And what - if anything - can we do about it?Why Do People Get Ill? explores the relationship between what's going on in our heads and what happens in ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • How Doctors Think

    Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine

    by Kathryn Montgomery ...
    How Doctors Think defines the nature and importance of clinical judgment. Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science but rather an interpretive practice that relies on clinical reasoning. A physician looks at the patient's history along with the presenting physical signs and symptoms and juxtaposes these with clinical experience and empirical ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Human Voice

    The Story of a Remarkable Talent

    by Anne Karpf ...
    Why has the female voice deepened over the last fifty years? Who talks more, men or women? How can a baby in the womb distinguish between different voices?The human voice is the personal and social glue that binds us, and the most important sound in our lives. The moment we open our mouth we leak information about our biological, psychological and social status. Babies use it to establish ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine

    by Eric J. Cassell ...
    This is a revised and expanded edtion of a classic in palliative medicine, originally published in 1991. With three added chapters and a new preface summarizing our progress in the area of pain management, this is a must-hve for those in palliative medicine and hospice care. The obligation of physicians to relieve human suffering stretches back into antiquity. But what exactly, is suffering? One ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine

    by Rita Charon, Sayantani DasGupta, Nellie Hermann, Craig Irvine, Eric R. Marcus, Edgar Rivera Colsn, Danielle Spencer, Maura Spiegel ...
    Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine expresses the collective experience and discoveries of the originators of the field. Arising at Columbia University in 2000 from roots in the humanities and patient-centered care, ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • In Search of Dignity

    A Lifetime of Reflections

    by Harvey Max Chochinov ...
    'In Search of Dignity' is a collection of candid and insightful publications from one of the world's leading palliative care researchers. It follows Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov's decades-long career, beginning as a young psychiatrist from the University of Manitoba to his experience at the prestigious Cornell Medical College and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre. Shaped by patient interaction, ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Knowing Pain

    A History of Sensation, Emotion, and Experience

    by Rob Boddice ...
    Pain, while known to almost everyone, is not universal. The evidence of our own pain, and our own experience, does not provide us with automatic insight into the pains of others, past or present. No matter how self-evident and ubiquitous the sting of a paper cut or the desolation of heartbreak might seem, pain is situated and historically specific.In a work that is sometimes personal, always ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Dignity in Care

    The Human Side of Medicine

    by Harvey Max Chochinov ...
    No one goes into healthcare with the intention of hurting people, or wanting to come off as callous, cold, or unfeeling. Fortunately, most people working in healthcare understand that kindness and compassion are key, even foundational to success in the care they provide to patients and families. And yet, all too often, there are instances when contact with healthcare is tainted by experiences ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

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  • Being Ill

    On Sickness, Care and Abandonment

    by Professor Neil Vickers, Prof Derek Bolton ...
    A serious illness often changes the way others see us. Few, if any, relationships remain the same. The sick become more dependent on partners and family members, while more distant contacts become strained. The carers of the ill are also often isolated. This book focuses on our sense of self when ill and how infirmity plays out in our relationships with others.Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton offer ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Matters of Life and Death

    Key Writings

    by Iona Heath ...
    In this extraordinary book, Iona Heath draws on her experience as a general practitioner to select and comment on a collection of passages concerning death and dying, and to consider the essential nature of general practice. In Ways of Dying Heath illuminates the process for professionals and lay readers, and stimulates consideration of approaches to improved care at end of life. Her renowned work ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD