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Book Anatomy of an Illness As Perceived By the Patient

Download or read book Anatomy of an Illness As Perceived By the Patient written by Norman Cousins and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-07-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a recovery from a crippling disease and the physician patient partnership that beat the odds by using the patient's own capabilities.

Book Head First

    Book Details:
  • Author : Norman Cousins
  • Publisher : Dutton Adult
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780525248057
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Head First written by Norman Cousins and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1989 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses evidence that positive attitudes enhance the human immune system and that hope, love, laughter, and determination can help combat serious disease

Book Who Speaks for Man

Download or read book Who Speaks for Man written by Norman Cousins and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1953 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modern Man is Obsolete

Download or read book Modern Man is Obsolete written by Norman Cousins and published by New York : The Viking Press. This book was released on 1946 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The healing heart

Download or read book The healing heart written by Norman Cousins and published by Avon Books. This book was released on 1984-10-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the massive heart attack Cousins suffered in 1980, the events leading up to the attack, the importance of coping with panic, the treatment process, his intensive rehabilitation program, and his recovery

Book Human Options

    Book Details:
  • Author : Norman Cousins
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton
  • Release : 1981-02-20
  • ISBN : 9780393332544
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Human Options written by Norman Cousins and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1981-02-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The tragedy of life is not death but what dies inside us while we live." --Excerpt from Human Options

Book In God We Trust the Religious Beliefs and Ideas of the American Founding Fathers

Download or read book In God We Trust the Religious Beliefs and Ideas of the American Founding Fathers written by Norman Cousins and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Nobel Prize Conversations with Sir John Eccles  Roger Sperry  Ilya Prigogine  Brian Josephson

Download or read book Nobel Prize Conversations with Sir John Eccles Roger Sperry Ilya Prigogine Brian Josephson written by John Carew Eccles and published by Saybrook Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writing for Love Or Money

Download or read book Writing for Love Or Money written by Norman Cousins and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five essays reprinted from "the Saturday review of literature".

Book The Celebration of Life

Download or read book The Celebration of Life written by Norman Cousins and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1991-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated.

Book Norman Cousins

Download or read book Norman Cousins written by Allen Pietrobon and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author has written the first scholarly biography of Norman Cousins, who, as the editor and owner of the Saturday Review for more than thirty years, had a powerful platform from which to help shape American public debate. A staunch opponent of nuclear weapons, Cousins was involved in several secret diplomatic missions at the height of the Cold War, and acting as a private citizen, he played a major role in getting the Limited Test Ban Treaty signed"--

Book On Judgment Day

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hans Christian Andersen
  • Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
  • Release : 2020-11-18
  • ISBN : 8726416778
  • Pages : 8 pages

Download or read book On Judgment Day written by Hans Christian Andersen and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The supreme day is the holiest day. It is when we are near death and we must face what we have done with our life. The noblest face it without fear, others tremble. However, when it comes, we still have much to learn about life. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author, poet and artist. Celebrated for children’s literature, his most cherished fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Little Match Girl". His books have been translated into every living language, and today there is no child or adult that has not met Andersen's whimsical characters. His fairy tales have been adapted to stage and screen countless times, most notably by Disney with the animated films "The Little Mermaid" in 1989 and "Frozen", which is loosely based on "The Snow Queen", in 2013. Thanks to Andersen's contribution to children's literature, his birth date, April 2, is celebrated as International Children's Book Day.

Book The Wounded Storyteller

Download or read book The Wounded Storyteller written by Arthur W. Frank and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated second edition: “A bold and imaginative book which moves our thinking about narratives of illness in new directions.” —Sociology of Heath and Illness Since it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. A collective portrait of a so-called “remission society” of those who suffer from illness or disability, as well as a cogent analysis of their stories within a larger framework of narrative theory, Arthur W. Frank’s book has reached a large and diverse readership including the ill, medical professionals, and scholars of literary theory. Drawing on the work of such authors as Oliver Sacks, Anatole Broyard, Norman Cousins, and Audre Lorde, as well as from people he met during the years he spent among different illness groups, Frank recounts a stirring collection of illness stories, ranging from the well-known—Gilda Radner’s battle with ovarian cancer—to the private testimonials of people with cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, and disabilities. Their stories are more than accounts of personal suffering: They abound with moral choices and point to a social ethic. In this new edition Frank adds a preface describing the personal and cultural times when the first edition was written. His new afterword extends the book’s argument significantly, discussing storytelling and experience, other modes of illness narration, and a version of hope that is both realistic and aspirational. Reflecting on his own life during the creation of the first edition and the conclusions of the book itself, he reminds us of the power of storytelling as way to understand our own suffering. “Arthur W. Frank’s second edition of The Wounded Storyteller provides instructions for use of this now-classic text in the study of illness narratives.” —Rita Charon, author of Narrative Medicine “Frank sees the value of illness narratives not so much in solving clinical conundrums as in addressing the question of how to live a good life.” —Christianity Today

Book Intuition

    Book Details:
  • Author : R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Publisher : Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN : 1199341592
  • Pages : 227 pages

Download or read book Intuition written by R. Buckminster Fuller and published by Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller. This book was released on 1973 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970 and 1971, Fuller was concurrently composing a poem suggested by his new Morgan sloop “Intuition” and rewriting, with my collaboration, the projected first chapter of Synergetics called “Brain and Mind.” Fuller agreed with my suggestion that this first chapter had an integrity of its own separate from the rest of the Synergetics manuscript, and he felt that both of these works had an urgency that argued for their publication at the earliest possible date. WIth the help of Bill Whitehead, our editor at Doubleday, they were combined in Intuition, the first of his two books of blank verse. Description by Ed Applewhite, courtesy of The Estate of Buckminster Fuller

Book Dr Schweitzer Of Lambarene

    Book Details:
  • Author : Norman Cousins
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2022-10-27
  • ISBN : 9781015819009
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Dr Schweitzer Of Lambarene written by Norman Cousins and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book A Crisis of Meaning

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Schwartzberg
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1996-12-05
  • ISBN : 0198025637
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book A Crisis of Meaning written by Steven Schwartzberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-12-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For gay men, the demands of the AIDS epidemic are enormous and unrelenting. Regardless of HIV status, all are called on to maintain vigilant safety with sex, to face down a cultural stigma greater even than homophobia, and to somehow find a way to go forward in a world heavy with loss. As exhaustion and grief threaten to overwhelm the activism and optimism of earlier years, and with new infections on the rise among young gay men, the challenge of finding meaning in a world turned upside down is more than an idle philosophical exercise. It is a matter of psychological and perhaps even physical survival. In this poignant and uncompromising new book, Dr. Steven Schwartzberg offers a ground-breaking perspective on how gay men (and particularly HIV-positive gay men) find ways to rebuild a world of meaning amid the trauma and uncertainty of the AIDS crisis. Eschewing both glib prescriptions for turning tragedy into triumph, and theoretical abstractions, Schwartzberg grounds his insights in his own experiences as a gay man and as a practicing psychotherapist, and in in-depth interviews with nineteen men living with HIV. Ranging in age from twenty-seven to fifty, the men include a construction foreman, a physician, an art historian, a waiter, a librarian, and a licensed massage therapist. With candor, insight, eagerness, and a remarkable ability to share of themselves, they speak eloquently about how HIV has affected their views of the world, their senses of themselves, and how they live their lives. Interweaving the men's stories with observations from his research and clinical practice, Schwartzberg bears witness to the remarkable transformations some men have accomplished, and the anguish of meaninglessness that weighs others down. He strives to uncover why some view HIV as a catalyst for change or growth, while others see it only as punishment. And though he passes no judgment on the coping strategies he describes, Schwartzberg does insist on the vital necessity of balancing somber reality with healing, life-sustaining hope. He argues that men who opt for too much illusion and too little reality risk shoddy self-care and inadequate preparation for the future, while those who find no escape from reality may teeter into rage or suicidal despair. Beautifully written, with piercing awareness of the enormity of the challenges confronting individuals with HIV, this book celebrates the resilience of the human spirit. It is both a keen psychological guide and an elegiac chronicle of what life for many has become. Gently pointing the way to an oasis of growth, strength, and love that exists amid the epidemic's bleak terrain of loss, it is essential reading for people living with HIV, for their friends, families, and the mental health professionals who care for them, and for all gay men grappling with the enormous changes AIDS has brought to a community under siege.

Book In Place of Folly

    Book Details:
  • Author : Norman Cousins
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1962
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book In Place of Folly written by Norman Cousins and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: