Download or read book Afflicted written by Nicole M. Piemonte and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How medical education and practice can move beyond a narrow focus on biological intervention to recognize the lived experiences of illness, suffering, and death. In Afflicted, Nicole Piemonte examines the preoccupation in medicine with cure over care, arguing that the traditional focus on biological intervention keeps medicine from addressing the complex realities of patient suffering. Although many have pointed to the lack of compassion and empathy in medical practice, few have considered the deeper philosophical, psychological, and ontological reasons for it. Piemonte fills that gap, examining why it is that clinicians and medical trainees largely evade issues of vulnerability and mortality and, doing so, offer patients compromised care. She argues that contemporary medical pedagogy and epistemology are not only shaped by the human tendency to flee from the reality of death and suffering but also perpetuate it. The root of the problem, she writes, is the educational and institutional culture that promotes reductionist understandings of care, illness, and suffering but avoids any authentic confrontation with human suffering and the fear and self-doubt that can come with that confrontation. Through a philosophical analysis of the patient-practitioner encounter, Piemonte argues that the doctor, in escaping from authentic engagement with a patient who is suffering, in fact “escapes from herself.” Piemonte explores the epistemology and pedagogy of medicine, examines its focus on calculative or technical thinking, and considers how “clinical detachment” diminishes physicians. She suggests ways that educators might cultivate the capacity for authentic patient care and proposes specific curricular changes to help students expand their moral imaginations.

Download or read book Affliction written by Russell Banks and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 1998-09-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wade Whitehouse, divorced, estranged from his young daughter, spends his days as a well-driller, snow-plow operator, and policeman, his nights in a wind-swept trailer park. But when a union boss is killed in an apparent hunting accident near Wade's home, and he is convinced that it is murder, he seizes the event as a chance to right many wrongs—unaware that as he unravels the mystery he himself will become unravelled. Soon his hunger for justice and self-respect become inseparable from a desperate violence.

Download or read book A Companion For the Afflicted a Series of Essays written by Thomas Harrison Walker and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-28 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.

Download or read book Gems for the afflicted selected by one who has been long in the furnace written by Gems and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Prospect of Heaven the Support of Afflicted Christians Consider d in a Funeral Sermon on 1 Cor Xv 19 Upon the Death of E Potter Publish d by C Owen written by James NAYLOR (Minister of the Gospel.) and published by . This book was released on 1713 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Counsel to the afflicted or Instruction and consolation for such as have suffered loss by fire Contained in the resolution of three questions occasioned by the dreadull fire in the City of London etc written by Owen STOCKTON and published by . This book was released on 1667 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Manual for the afflicted comprising a practical essay on affliction and a series of meditations and prayers etc written by Thomas Hartwell HORNE and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bow in the Cloud Or Covenant Mercy for the Afflicted written by William Bacon Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Afflicted Powers written by Retort (Organization : San Francisco, Calif.) and published by Verso. This book was released on 2005-06-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Afflicted Powers is an account of world politics since September 11, 2001. It aims to confront the perplexing doubleness of the present - its lethal mixture of atavism and new-fangledness. A brute return of the past, calling to mind now the Scramble for Africa, now the Wars of Religion, is accompanied by an equally monstrous political deployment of (and entrapment in) the apparatus of a hyper-modern production of appearances."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book A Companion for the Afflicted written by Thomas H. Walker (Wesleyan Methodist Minister.) and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Afflicted Man s Companion Or A Directory for Families and Persons Afflicted with Sickness Or Any Other Distress written by John Willison and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Afflicted Man s Companion or a directory for families and persons afflicted with sickness To which are added the dying words of the author written by himself etc written by John WILLISON and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Afflicted Man s Companion written by John Willison and published by . This book was released on 1744 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Afflicted Girls written by Nicole Cooley and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty individuals were executed and more than 150 imprisoned. The historical body of evidence that remains from the Salem witch trials of 1692 touched the hands, mind, and imagination of poet Nicole Cooley, compelling her to seek entry to an inaccessible past of lies. The Afflicted Girls, so named after the young women who claimed to be victims of witchcraft, spans the centuries to give voice to those both audible and silent on history’s pages—accusers and accused of several kinds: wife and husband, servant and master, congregant and minister, and, not least, bewitched and witch. Piercing, enchanting, Cooley’s poems form a remarkable narrative, one that displays the enormous cultural power the Salem witch trials retain in twenty-first-century America.

Download or read book The Life of Faith in Time of Trial and Affliction Etc The Swan Song Or the Second Part of the Life of Faith Published by a Poor Well wisher to the Interest of Christ Etc written by John BROWN (Minister of the Gospel at Wamphray.) and published by . This book was released on 1726 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Comfort in Affliction a series of meditations Twenty first thousand written by James BUCHANAN (Minister of St. Stephen's Free Church, Edinburgh.) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Affliction written by Laura Hall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1937, at the age of nineteen, Ralph Hall, suicidal, revealed his sexual orientation to his grandmother, knowing she would comfort him. He was out for three years afterwards, until an indiscretion sent him back into the closet. At twenty-four, while in the army, he met and married Irene. The couple made their home on the San Francisco Peninsula and had four children. Ralph was an attentive husband and father—albeit with an intense interest in interior design, flower arranging, and fine objects—and a diligent worker who rose to payroll accountant at Standard Oil. It wasn't until 1975 that Ralph came out to his middle daughter, Laura, telling her that he had once considered his sexuality an aberration, an affliction. She was shocked, as the possibility her father might be gay had never crossed her mind. Irene had known Ralph’s secret for eighteen years, but the two remained married until she died. It was only then that this charismatic man and devoted father, by now in his eighties, could freely express his authentic, gay self. Here, Laura paints a vivid and honest portrait of her beloved father and the effect his secret had on her own life.