Free Download Rachel Zoffness MS PhD, Elliot J. Krane MD, "The Chronic Pain and Illness Workbook for Teens: CBT and Mindfulness-Based Practices to Turn the Volume Down on Pain"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1684033527 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 1.4 mb
In this powerful workbook for teens, pediatric pain specialist Rachel Zoffness offers evidence-based strategies to help you turn the volume down on chronic pain and illness and get back to living your life.

Free Download Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South By Marli F. Weiner, Mayzie Hough
2012 | 289 Pages | ISBN: 025208053X | PDF | 9 MB
Marli F. Wiener skillfully integrates the history of medicine with social and intellectual history in this study of how race and sex complicated medical treatment in the antebellum South. Sex, Sickness, and Slavery argues that Southern physicians' scientific training and practice uniquely entitled them to formulate medical justification for the imbalanced racial hierarchies of the period. Challenged with both helping to preserve the slave system (by acknowledging and preserving clear distinctions of race and sex) and enhancing their own authority (with correct medical diagnoses and effective treatment), doctors sought to understand bodies that did not necessarily fit into neat dichotomies or agree with suggested treatments. Focusing on Southern states from Virginia to Alabama, Weiner examines medical and lay perspectives on the body through a range of sources, including medical journals, notes, diaries, daybooks, and letters. These personal and revealing sources show how physicians, medical students, and patients--both free whites and slaves--felt about vulnerability to disease and mental illnesses, how bodily differences between races and sexes were explained, and how emotions, common sense, working conditions, and climate were understood to have an effect on the body. Physicians' authority did not go uncontested, however. Weiner also describes the ways in which laypeople, both black and white, resisted medical authority, clearly refusing to cede explanatory power to doctors without measuring medical views against their own bodily experiences or personal beliefs. Expertly drawing the dynamic tensions during this period in which Southern culture and the demands of slavery often trumped science, Weiner explores how doctors struggled with contradictions as medicine became a key arena for debate over the meanings of male and female, sick and well, black and white, North and South.

Free Download Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing By G. Thomas Couser
1997 | 335 Pages | ISBN: 0299155609 | PDF | 26 MB
This is a provocative look at writing by and about people with illness or disability-in particular HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, deafness, and paralysis-who challenge the stigmas attached to their conditions by telling their lives in their own ways and on their own terms. Discussing memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, essays, and other forms of life writing, G. Thomas Couser shows that these books are not primarily records of medical conditions; they are a means for individuals to recover their bodies (or those of loved ones) from marginalization and impersonal medical discourse. Responding to the recent growth of illness and disability narratives in the United States-such works as Juliet Wittman's Breast Cancer Journal, John Hockenberry's Moving Violations, Paul Monette's Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir, and Lou Ann Walker's A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family-Couser addresses questions of both poetics and politics. He examines why and under what circumstances individuals choose to write about illness or disability; what role Description plays in such narratives; how and whether closure is achieved; who assumes the prerogative of narration; which conditions are most often represented; and which literary conventions lend themselves to representing particular conditions. By tracing the development of new subgenres of personal narrative in our time, this book explores how explicit consideration of illness and disability has enriched the repertoire of life writing. In addition, Couser's discussion of medical discourse joins the current debate about whether the biomedical model is entirely conducive to humane care for ill and disabled people. With its sympathetic critique of the testimony of those most affected by these conditions, Recovering Bodies contributes to an understanding of the relations among bodily dysfunction, cultural conventions, and identity in contemporary America.

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English | 2015 | ISBN: 1433819775 | 265 Pages | PDF (True) | 3.3 MB
In contrast to the institutional approach of years past, today most people with mental illness live in the community, and decide for themselves whether, and to what extent, to participate in treatment. Providers are now beginning to ask, "How do I provide services that help people achieve their recovery goals?" rather than, "How do I get my patient to adhere to the prescribed treatment?"

Free Download Paweł Wojtas, "Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee"
English | ISBN: 1399522574 | 2024 | 320 pages | PDF | 22 MB
This study offers a detailed analysis of the fiction of J. M. Coetzee, including the novels of the South African and Australian periods, to demonstrate the development of Coetzee's engagement with the complexities of non-normative embodiment. In this illuminating monograph, Paweł Wojtas demonstrates the extent to which Coetzee's multifaceted depictions of disability offer a sustained critique of the ableist implications of political violence and neoliberal inclusionism alike. Exploring a wide range of notions, such as ocularnormativism, mute speech, eco-disability, disability Gothic, dismodernism, autogerontography, and bibliotherapy, Wojtas shows how Coetzee's 'disabled textuality' provokes a sustained meditation on various forms of cultural denigration of disability experience.

Free Download Wendy Schlessel Harpham, "Happiness in a Storm: Facing Illness and Embracing Life as a Healthy Survivor"
English | 2006 | pages: 392 | ISBN: 0393329054 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
"A guide to the meaning of joy and satisfaction, and the many routes to them."―Jane Brody, New York Times

Free Download The Distressed Body: Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment, and Healing By Drew Leder
2016 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 022639610X | PDF | 4 MB
Bodily pain and distress come in many forms. They can well up from within at times of serious illness, but the body can also be subjected to harsh treatment from outside. The medical system is often cold and depersonalized, and much worse are conditions experienced by prisoners in our age of mass incarceration, and by animals trapped in our factory farms. In this pioneering book, Drew Leder offers bold new ways to rethink how we create and treat distress, clearing the way for more humane social practices.Leder draws on literary examples, clinical and philosophical sources, his medical training, and his own struggle with chronic pain. He levies a challenge to the capitalist and Cartesian models that rule modern medicine. Similarly, he looks at the root paradigms of our penitentiary and factory farm systems and the way these produce distressed bodies, asking how such institutions can be reformed. Writing with coauthors ranging from a prominent cardiologist to long-term inmates, he explores alternative environments that can better humanize-even spiritualize-the way we treat one another, offering a very different vision of medical, criminal justice, and food systems. Ultimately Leder proposes not just new answers to important bioethical questions but new ways of questioning accepted concepts and practices.

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English | ISBN: 1617116475 | 2015 | 248 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Are you looking for concise, practical answers to questions that are often left unanswered by traditional sports medicine references?

Free Download Prama Bhattacharya, "Homelessness and Mental Illness"
English | ISBN: 103219572X | 2024 | 152 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 4 MB
This book explores the trajectories of social suffering, exclusion, and victimisation of homeless persons with mental illness in India. It uses a Critical Ethnographic approach to study their lived experiences associated with downward mobilisation and the challenges in the process of recovery and empowerment.

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2008 | 218 Pages | ISBN: 0813543371 | PDF | 1 MB
Hundreds of thousands of the inmates who populate the nation's jails and prison systems today are identified as mentally ill. Many experts point to the deinstitutionalization of mental hospitals in the 1960s, which led to more patients living on their own, as the reason for this high rate of incarceration. But this explanation does not justify why our society has chosen to treat these people with punitive measures. In Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness, Patricia E. Erickson and Steven K. Erickson explore how societal beliefs about free will and moral responsibility have shaped current policies and they identify the differences among the goals, ethos, and actions of the legal and health care systems. Drawing on high-profile cases, the authors provide a critical analysis of topics, including legal standards for competency, insanity versus mental illness, sex offenders, psychologically disturbed juveniles, the injury and death rates of mentally ill prisoners due to the inappropriate use of force, the high level of suicide, and the release of mentally ill individuals from jails and prisons who have received little or no treatment.