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Free Download Sage Ravenwood, "Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost: Poems"
English | ISBN: 1954622228 | 2023 | 100 pages | EPUB, PDF | 480 KB + 341 KB
Sage Ravenwood is a deaf Indigenous poet whose work deals with the lingering, resurgent trauma of familial violence and the machinations of colonialism. Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost is a poet’s response to her place in the wider world, exploring grief, anger, tenderness, and defiance. Ravenwood sheds light on Indigenous issues such as MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) and the Native American boarding schools, but she also makes space to center the natural world and her reverence of it. The poems in this collection are unafraid to name rage and pain as driving emotions yet strive for understanding and a way forward to healing.

Free Download Why Does It Still Hurt?: How the Power of Knowledge Can Overcome Chronic Pain by Paul Biegler
English | April 4, 2023 | ISBN: 1957363274 | 304 pages | PDF | 1.81 Mb
Can knowledge heal chronic pain? The ultimate, science-driven guide to understanding chronic pain.

Free Download Born to Be Hurt: The Untold Story of Imitation of Life by Sam Staggs
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0312373368 | 432 Pages | EPUB | 610.7 KB
Few films inspire the devotion of Imitation of Life, one of the most popular films of the ’50s-a split personality drama that’s both an irresistible women’s picture and a dark commentary on ambition, motherhood, racial identity, and hope lost and found.

Free Download Lead Health Researcher Melina Sherman, "How We Hurt: The Politics of Pain in the Opioid Epidemic"
English | ISBN: B0C2ZR1STK | 2023 | 200 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
How We Hurt dives into the institutional and cultural dimensions of the ongoing opioid epidemic. In a detailed analysis of pain management, opioid regulation, pharmaceutical branding, self-help, and public discourses on opioid addiction, Melina Sherman argues that the linchpin underlying the opioid epidemic’s evolution in North America is the problem of pain. By unpacking the politics of pain in different domains, How We Hurt shows how the crisis emerged and shifted, and why it looks the way it does today. The book’s chapters begin by tracing the trajectory of opioids in pain management, where decisions regarding the measurement of pain led to relief becoming wedded to opioids in medicine. The following chapters examine the problem of pain in opioid regulation, pharmaceutical branding, and the self-help industry. In these areas, a disastrous combination of strategic ignorance and deep-seated ties between public health entities and pharmaceutical companies drove the influx of opioids onto the market and into our medicine cabinets. The book’s penultimate chapter applies the analysis of pain to the problem of opioid addiction in popular discourse and shows how the opioid crisis has evolved alongside new conceptions of addiction and people who use opioids that condition whose pain is seen as legitimate and whose is not. Finally, the book concludes by considering the implications of its findings for the development of drug policy and future research on public health disasters, insisting on an interdisciplinary and multi-faceted approach to the study of pain and its place American culture.

Free Download Yong Zhao, "What Works May Hurt―Side Effects in Education"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0807759058 | PDF | pages: 180 | 3.0 mb
Medical products are required to disclose both their intended outcomes and known side effects. Educational policy and practice, however, carry no such labels. Thus, teachers, school leaders, and the public are not told, for example, that "this program helps improve your students’ reading scores, but it may make them hate reading forever," or that "school choice may improve test scores of some students, but it may lead to the collapse of American public education."

Free Download Why We Hurt: The Natural History of Pain (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6BDYZFH | 2023 | 9 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 265 MB
Author: Frank T. Vertosick Jr.
Narrator: Tom Parks
A top neurosurgeon and acclaimed author’s unique and highly listenable study of the paradox of pain, with fascinating anecdotes on migraines, cancer, and more. Medical science has made brilliant discoveries over the last century but as any cancer patient can attest, it has yet to conquer, or even fully comprehend, pain. Beginning with his own battle against severe migraines, and citing numerous case studies of his patients, in Why We Hurt Dr. Frank Vertosick explains how pain evolved, and by highlighting the critical functions it serves, he helps us to understand its value. Well written, expertly researched, and movingly told, each chapter offers an amalgam of medicine, history, anthropology, drama, inspiration, and practical advice on a myriad of pain syndromes, from back pain to angina, arthritis to carpal tunnel syndrome. A skilled writer and compassionate physician, Vertosick believes knowledge is often the first, and best, analgesic, and in Why We Hurt, "he offers fascinating insight into the greatest mystery of all: what it means to be human".