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  • The Chief Concern of Medicine

    The Integration of the Medical Humanities and Narrative Knowledge into Medical Practices

    by Ronald Schleifer, Jerry Vannatta ...
    Unlike any existing studies of the medical humanities, The Chief Concern of Medicinebrings to the examination of medical practices a thorough—and clearly articulated—exposition of the nature of narrative. The book builds on the work of linguistics, semiotics, narratology, and discourse theory and examines numerous literary works and narrative "vignettes" of medical problems, situations, and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Literature and Medicine

    A Practical and Pedagogical Guide

    by Ronald Schleifer, Jerry B. Vannatta ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Literature and Medicine: A Practical and Pedagogical Guide is designed to introduce narrative medicine in medical humanities courses aimed at pre-medicine undergraduates and medical and healthcare students. With excerpts from short stories, novels, memoirs, and poems, the book guides students on the basic methods and concepts of the study of narrative. The book helps healthcare professionals to ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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  • How to Develop Emotional Health

    by Oliver James ...
    Series Book 17 - School of Life
    Happiness is a loaded term that means different things to different people. To some, it might mean life satisfaction, to others, a fleeting moment of joy. Rather than seeking to be happy, Oliver James encourages us to cultivate our emotional health. Outlining the five elements of good emotional health - insightfulness, a strong sense of self, fluid relationships, authenticity and playfulness in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

    And Other Clinical Tales

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    In his most beloved and extraordinary book, Dr. Sacks recounts the case histories of patients inhabiting the compelling world of neurological disorders. Featuring a preface never before included.Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The New Black

    Mourning, Melancholia and Depression

    by Darian Leader ...
    The New Black is Darian Leader's compassionate and illuminating exploration of melancholyWhat happens when we lose someone we love? A death, a separation or the break-up of a relationship are some of the hardest times we have to live through. We may fall into a nightmare of depression, lose the will to live and see no hope for the future. What matters at this crucial point is whether or not we are ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Narrative Medicine : Honoring the Stories of Illness

    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

  • Winnicott On The Child

    by D. W. Winnicott ...
    This delightful book presents a selection of D. W. Winnicott's best writing about children. The remarkable, enduring essays from Babies and Their Mothers and Talking to Parents are here combined with several hard-to-find gems of insight into the world of the child. Each piece was written for a wide audience of parents, childcare professionals, and teachers. In his empathic and witty way, Winnicott ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Story of Pain

    From Prayer to Painkillers

    by Joanna Bourke ...
    Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is easy to assume this is the end of the story: 'pain-is-pain-is-pain', and that is all there is to say. But it is not. In fact, the way in ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Every Third Thought

    On life, death and the endgame

    by Robert McCrum ...
    As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week**'Moving, intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic' Melvyn Bragg'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful'** Kate MosseIn 1995, at the age of forty-two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke. Since that life-changing event, McCrum has lived in the shadow of death, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Politics of the Family

    by R.D. Laing ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    In his 1968 CBC Massey Lectures R. D. Laing discusses how and why we value society's notions of family over our own. Using concepts of schizophrenia, R.D. Laing demonstrates that we tend to invalidate the subjective and experiential and accept the proper societal view of what should occur within the family. A psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Laing worked at the Tavistock Institute of Human ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Power of Mental Imagery

    by Warren Hilton ...
    Do you think it's possible to make your dreams come true? In this classic self-help volume, Warren Hilton instructs readers how they can literally make that happen. The book presents a series of techniques and exercises through which you can use the power of mental imagery to manifest your hopes and aspirations. Think yourself into a happier, more fulfilled life with The Power of Mental Imagery. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Asperger Syndrome: Reflections

    by Gay Eastoe ...
    Gay Eastoe lives in Cumbria.She is married to Richard and has four children.Gay was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome at the age of 48 years in 2002 after the onset of panic attacks.In 2005 she was diagnosed with Dyslexia and in 2006 Catatonic Deterioration in association with her autism.Despite struggling at school Gay has a B.Sc., a Ph.D., and a B.A. and is currently studying for two more degrees ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD