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Author: Stephen Massimilla Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press ISBN: 9781622880072 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 0
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In Stephen Massimilla's latest book, The Plague Doctor in His Hull-Shaped Hat, self-recognition is found in the loss, beauty, and suffering that define our common humanity. This collection of poems maps overseas and underworld routes by which personal exploration opens onto universal territory. From Capri to Venice, from New England to the tropics, from Ithaca to the prismatic sea, the poems enact a struggle to salvage psychological, social, cultural and ecological landscapes.
Author: Stephen Massimilla Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press ISBN: 9781622880072 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 0
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In Stephen Massimilla's latest book, The Plague Doctor in His Hull-Shaped Hat, self-recognition is found in the loss, beauty, and suffering that define our common humanity. This collection of poems maps overseas and underworld routes by which personal exploration opens onto universal territory. From Capri to Venice, from New England to the tropics, from Ithaca to the prismatic sea, the poems enact a struggle to salvage psychological, social, cultural and ecological landscapes.
Author: Craig Sennett Publisher: ISBN: 9781909133051 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 286
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Masks hide more than just flesh... A sadistic killer stalks the city of Green Valley Falls and with limited resources the police are getting nowhere. Fear grips the heart of the city as the unusual nature of the attacks are kept from the media. Laurie Hood, a young man living a mundane life loses a friend to the killer and begins investigating the case himself. He quickly has to adapt to his new life, as the killer widens his list of targets and continues his reign of terror. Can one man make a difference?
Author: Caspar Vega Publisher: Caspar Vega ISBN: 1542820944 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 104
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A nightmarish pulsating space adventure. A man wakes up on the couch. His couch? Is it the morning or the middle of the night? Was he drinking again? Has his wife left for work yet? Why can't he move? Why doesn't he know how he got there? And most importantly... How did he lose his memory? Someone has the answers. Donald Trump: Plague Doctor is a feverish Rubik's Cube of pulp goodness that will wake you up from cryogenic sleep, put you into a spaceship, and leave you wondering what planet you were just on. Tremendous.
Author: John Aberth Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 144222391X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 499
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The Black Death of the late Middle Ages is often described as the greatest natural disaster in the history of humankind. More than fifty million people, half of Europe’s population, died during the first outbreak alone from 1347 to 1353. Plague then returned fifteen more times through to the end of the medieval period in 1500, posing the greatest challenge to physicians ever recorded in the history of the medical profession. This engrossing book provides the only comprehensive history of the medical response to the Black Death over time. Leading historian John Aberth has translated many unknown plague treatises from nine different languages that vividly illustrate the human dimensions of the horrific scourge. He includes doctors’ remarkable personal anecdotes, showing how their battles to combat the disease (which often afflicted them personally) and the scale and scope of the plague led many to question ancient authorities. Dispelling many myths and misconceptions about medicine during the Middle Ages, Aberth shows that plague doctors formulated a unique and far-reaching response as they began to treat plague as a poison, a conception that had far-reaching implications, both in terms of medical treatment and social and cultural responses to the disease in society as a whole.
Author: Ross A. Slotten, MD Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022671876X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 225
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In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten signed more death certificates in Chicago—and, by inference, the state of Illinois—than anyone else. As a family physician, he was trained to care for patients from birth to death, but when he completed his residency in 1984, he had no idea that many of his future patients would be cut down in the prime of their lives. Among those patients were friends, colleagues, and lovers, shunned by most of the medical community because they were gay and HIV positive. Slotten wasn’t an infectious disease specialist, but because of his unique position as both a gay man and a young physician, he became an unlikely pioneer, swept up in one of the worst epidemics in modern history. Plague Years is an unprecedented first-person account of that epidemic, spanning not just the city of Chicago but four continents as well. Slotten provides an intimate yet comprehensive view of the disease’s spread alongside heartfelt portraits of his patients and his own conflicted feelings as a medical professional, drawn from more than thirty years of personal notebooks. In telling the story of someone who was as much a potential patient as a doctor, Plague Years sheds light on the darkest hours in the history of the LGBT community in ways that no previous medical memoir has.
Author: C. L. Hernandez Publisher: ISBN: 9781941295335 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 158
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After antiques dealer Zolena Gillette purchases a blind-box of antiques at an estate auction, she realizes she's acquired an authentic plague doctor's mask from 17th century Italy. While searching to find a buyer for the macabre artifact, she quickly discovers that the mask is haunted by the tormented spirit of a medieval plague doctor.
Author: Ann Benson Publisher: Dell ISBN: 0307778118 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 690
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“Part historical novel, part futuristic adventure . . . chock full of curious lore and considerable suspense.”—Entertainment Weekly It is history's most feared disease. It turned neighbor against neighbor, the civilized into the savage, and the living into the dead. Now, in a spellbinding novel of adventure and science, romance and terror, two eras are joined by a single trace of microscopic bacterium—the invisible seeds of a new bubonic plague. In the year 1348, a disgraced Spanish physician crosses a landscape of horrors to Avignon, France. There, he will be sent on an impossible mission to England, to save the royal family from the Black Death. . . . Nearly seven hundred years later, a woman scientist digs up a clod of earth in London. In a world where medicine is tightly controlled, she will unearth a terror lying dormant for centuries. From the primitive cures of the Middle Ages to the biological police state of our near future, The Plague Tales is a thrilling race against time and mass destruction. For in 2005, humankind's last hope for survival can come only from one place: out of a dark and tortured past. Praise for The Plague Tales “Benson reveals a formidable talent as she blends historical fiction with a near-future bio-thriller.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Harrowing . . . Will give readers both nightmares and thrills . . . A carefully woven page-turner from which . . . Robin Cook and Michael Crichton could learn.”—Library Journal “A hard-to-put-down thriller steeped in historical fiction and bio-tech sci-fi.”—Middlesex News (Mass.)
Author: Betty MacDonald Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062672258 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 180
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A pre-WW2 American humorist contracts TB and “writes about her seclusion in a way that is painfully, barkingly funny” (Lissa Evans, The Guardian). “Getting tuberculosis in the middle of your life is like starting downtown to do a lot of urgent errands and being hit by a bus. When you regain consciousness you remember nothing about the urgent errands. You can’t even remember where you were going.” Thus begins Betty MacDonald’s memoir of her year in a sanatorium just outside Seattle battling the “White Plague.” MacDonald uses her offbeat humor to make the most of her time in the TB sanatorium—making all of us laugh in the process. “Improbably funny. . . equally remarkable.” ―Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly “Can you imagine writing a whole book about being forbidden to do anything other than lie in bed? But Betty does, and she somehow makes it a riveting chronicle.” ―Lory Widmer Hess, Emerald City Book Review “An appetizing, well-seasoned feast. MacDonald’s sharp, witty observations as she spends almost a year in The Pines Clinic, outside of Seattle, are perfectly pitched . . . with a huge dollop of idiosyncratic humour . . . MacDonald is an impressive and engaging storyteller.” ―Jules Morgan, The Lancet
Author: Justin Richards Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1849905746 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 258
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When the Doctor arrives in the 19th-century village of Klimtenburg, he discovers the residents suffering from some kind of plague, a wasting disease. The victims face a horrible death, but what's worse, the dead seem to be leaving their graves. The plague warriors have returned.
Author: Stephen Massimilla
Author: Stephen Massimilla
Author: Craig Sennett
Author: Sherwin B. Nuland
Author: Caspar Vega
Author: John Aberth
Author: Ross A. Slotten, MD
Author: C. L. Hernandez
Author: Ann Benson
Author: Betty MacDonald
Author: Justin Richards