Author: Alfred Ellenwood GilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Doctor-craft, State-medicine, and Man a Spiritual Being
Author: Alfred Ellenwood GilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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The Republican
Author: Richard CarlilePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
The Republican
Author: When Breath Becomes Air
Author: Paul KalanithiPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812988418
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.
The Religions of the American Indians
Author: Åke HultkrantzPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520026537
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This study of the religions of American Indians covers tribal religions and religions of the American high culture.
Against the Spirit of System
Author: John Harley WarnerPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801878213
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
In this wide-ranging exploration of American medical culture, John Harley Warner offers the first in-depth study of a powerful intellectual and social influence: the radical empiricism of the Paris Clinical School. After the French Revolution, Paris emerged as the most vibrant center of Western medicine, bringing fundamental changes in understanding disease and attitudes toward the human body as an object of scientific knowledge. Between the 1810s and the 1860s, hundreds of Americans studied in Parisian hospitals and dissection rooms, and then applied their new knowledge to advance their careers at home and reform American medicine. By reconstructing their experiences and interpretations, by comparing American with English depictions of French medicine, and by showing how American memories of Paris shaped the later reception of German ideals of scientific medicine, Warner reveals that the French impulse was a key ingredient in creating the modern medicine American doctors and patients live with today. Impressed by the opportunity to learn through direct hands-on physical examination and dissection, many American students in Paris began to decry the elaborate theoretical schemes they held responsible for the degraded state of American medicine. These reformers launched an empiricist crusade "against the spirit of system," which promised social, economic, and intellectual uplift for their profession. Using private diaries, family letters, and student notebooks, and exploring regionalism, gender, and class, Warner draws readers into the world of medical Americans while investigating tensions between the physician's identity as scientist and as healer.
The Medium and Daybreak
Author: Illinois Medical Journal
Author: Where God and Medicine Meet
Author: Neale Donald WalschPublisher: Rainbow Ridge
ISBN: 9781937907488
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Is it possible taht human beings are more than simply biological creatures, physical entities with a highly developed mind? Could it be that we are also (or even primarily) spiritual entities? If so, could 'healing' involve more than 'fixing' the body and treating the mind but also engaging the Source from which many believe we have emerged?"--Back cover.
Standard Guide to Non-poisonous Herbal Medicine
Author: William Henry WebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Materia medica, Vegetable
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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