Tag: Illness

Free Download Illness, Pain, and Health Care in Early Christianity by Helen Rhee
English | October 22, 2022 | ISBN: 0802876846 | True EPUB | 367 pages | 1.8 MB
What did pain and illness mean to early Christians? And how did their approaches to health care compare to those of the ancient Greco-Roman world?

Free Download Sayantani DasGupta, Marsha Hurst, "Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies"
English | 2007 | pages: 348 | ISBN: 0873389166 | PDF | 53,4 mb
A collection of women’s illness narratives

Free Download The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness 11th Edition by Denise Copelton, Gregory Weiss
2023 | ISBN: 1032418125, 1032418117 | English | 480 pages | PDF/EPUB | 29/14 MB
With thorough coverage of inequality in health care access and practice, this leading textbook is widely acclaimed by instructors as the most comprehensive of any available. Written in an engaging and accessible style, with multiple student-friendly features, it integrates recent research in medical sociology and public health to introduce students to a wide range of issues affecting health, healing, and health care today.

Free Download Being Well with Chronic Illness: A Guide to Joy & Resilience with Your Diagnosis by Kat Hill, Nancy Peate
English | October 18, 2022 | ISBN: 1578269474 | 161 pages | PDF | 3.19 Mb
Being Well with Chronic Illness is a self-help guide for those with chronic illnesses looking to find a better path to wellness.

Free Download Havi Carel, "Health, Illness and Disease: Philosophical Essays"
English | ISBN: 1844655431 | 2012 | 256 pages | PDF | 4 MB
What counts as health or ill health? How do we deal with the fallibility of our own bodies? Should illness and disease be considered simply in biological terms, or should considerations of its emotional impact dictate our treatment of it? Our understanding of health and illness had become increasingly more complex in the modern world, as we are able to use medicine not only to fight disease but to control other aspects of our bodies, whether mood, blood pressure, or cholesterol. This collection of essays foregrounds the concepts of health and illness and patient experience within the philosophy of medicine, reflecting on the relationship between the ill person and society. Mental illness is considered alongside physical disease, and the important ramifications of society’s differentiation between the two are brought to light. Health, Illness and Disease is a significant contribution to shaping the parameters of the evolving field of philosophy of medicine and will be of interest to medical practitioners and policy-makers as well as philosophers of science and ethicists.

Free Download Daniel G. Amen, MD, "The End of Mental Illness: How Neuroscience Is Transforming Psychiatry and Helping Prevent or Reverse Mood and Anxiety D"
English | ISBN: 1496438159 | 2020 | 448 pages | PDF | 5 MB
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Free Download Anita Wohlmann, "Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused "
English | ISBN: 1399500864 | 2022 | 224 pages | PDF | 1153 KB
Metaphor in Illness Writing argues that even when a metaphor appears problematic and limiting, it need not be dropped or dismissed. Metaphors are not inherently harmful or beneficial; instead, they can be used in unexpected and creative ways. This book analyses the illness writing of contemporary North American writers who reimagine and reappropriate the supposedly harmful metaphor ‘illness is a fight’ and shows how Susan Sontag, Audre Lorde, Anatole Broyard, David Foster Wallace and other writers turn the fight metaphor into a space of agency, resistance, self-knowledge and aesthetic pleasure. It joins a conversation in Medical Humanities about alternatives to the predominance of narrative and responds to the call for more metaphor literacy and metaphor competence.

Free Download Dr Joan Rutherford, "Mental Disorders, Mental Illness and the Family Court: A Reference Guide for Non-Medical Professionals"
English | ISBN: 152652189X | 2022 | 400 pages | PDF | 4 MB
"…should be welcomed by all those who work in the field of Family Law…an ‘off the shelf’ comprehensive resource…the focus throughout is on helping the reader, not only to understand all relevant aspects of mental illness, but also to understand how that knowledge may impact upon any particular court case…Its publication is therefore most welcome and I predict that it will soon become a recognisable presence on the bookshelves of many." The Rt Hon Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division

Free Download Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, 2nd Edition by Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison
English | March 22, 2007 | ISBN: 0195135792 | 1262 pages | PDF | 16 Mb
The revolution in psychiatry that began in earnest in the 1960s led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness. Hailed as the most outstanding book in the biomedical sciences when it was originally published in 1990, Manic-Depressive Illness was the first to survey this massive body of evidence comprehensively and to assess its meaning for both clinician and scientist. It also vividly portrayed the experience of manic-depressive illness from the perspective of patients, their doctors, and researchers. Encompassing an understanding about the illness as Kraeplin conceived of it- about its cyclical course and about the essential unity of its bipolar and recurrent unipolar forms- the book has become the definitive work on the topic, revered by both specialists and nonspecialists alike.

Free Download Julie Singer, "Representing Mental Illness in Late Medieval France: Machines, Madness, Metaphor "
English | ISBN: 1843845121 | 2018 | 374 pages | PDF | 13 MB
An exploration of the medieval mind as a machine, and how it might be affected and immobiled, in textual reactions to the madness of Charles VI of France.