Body & soul narratives of healing from Ars medica /

Body & soul narratives of healing from Ars medica / Body and soul edited by Allison Crawford [and others. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource (xi, 305 pages) : illustrations, portraits, digital file

Includes bibliographies and index.

Part 1: Patients -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1 As One Might Expect / 2 Hands: A Suite of Stories / 3 Prenatal Exam / 4 Sunday Nights at the Shangri-La / 5 A Picture Made of Sound / 6 Centre of Dread / 7 At Thirteen, Asthmatic/Medicine Pudding/First Day Home from the Hospital / 8 Daughter Cells / 9 BSE / 10 Things Taken / 11 Pain Scale / 12 Seeing the Heart / 13 Matter and Energy / 14 My Little Heart Attack / 15 The Eighth Day / 16 Life Study / 17 Second Sight / 18 Lethargy, Resulting from the Sudden Extinction of Light/Swallows / 19 On the Loss and Reconstruction of a Self / 20 The Cure of Metaphor / 21 Kasabach-Merrit Syndrome / 22 Inadequacy of Impotence / 23 Diabetes: My Body Says "Fall" / 24 Care for the Patient / 25 I, Michael Christopher Willard -- Part 2: Family and Friends -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 26 Drawing Insulin / 27 Days and Nights in the NICU / 28 Eden and I Are Playing Go Fish / 29 Palliation / 30 All Out of Funny in Crystal Lake, California / 31 911 / 32 Stoma / 33 Unpacking My Daughter's Library / 34 My Father's Polio / 35 Lie Down 176 / 36 Friendship Bracelets / 37 Hope from a Distance / 38 Something Happened / 39 The Right Thing to Say / 40 Second Round / 41 On Different Hospital Floors / 42 The Alzheimer's Man / 43 The Second Parlour / 44 The Wong-Baker Scale / 45 Denial / Part 3: Practitioners -- Introduction to Part 3 -- 46 Accident Room / 47 Tale of a T-Shirt / 48 The Texture of a Word / 49 Table of Unidentified Contents / 50 Figuring the Ground / 51 Refugees in Southeast Asia / 52 Mid-winter Night/Summer Party / 53 On Pathography / 54 Elysium / 55 First Day on the Wards / 56 On Call / 57 Making Images / William Bradley -- Linda E. Clarke -- Sarah Cross -- Cindy Dale -- Anne Elliott -- Faye George -- John Grey -- Jessica Handler -- Alison Hauch -- Isabel Hoskins -- Paul Hostovsky -- Catherine Jagoe -- Lorie Kolak -- Tom Lombardo -- Michael C. McConnell -- Helen McLean -- Helen McLean -- Mary O'Donoghue -- Menorah Lafayette-Lebovics Rotenberg -- Kenneth Sherman -- Heather Spears -- George J. Stevenson -- Heather L. Stuckey -- Yvonne Trainer -- Anonymous -- Christine Benvenuto -- Susie Berg -- Pat Cason -- Stephan Clark -- Diane Foley -- Kathy Giorgio -- Joan Givner -- Patricia F. Goldblatt -- Katherine Govier -- Jon Hunter -- Nigel Leaney -- Jane Martin -- Kathy Page -- Nancy Richler -- Nicholas Samaras -- Alan Steinberg -- Anne Marie Todkill -- Gina P. Vozenilek -- Gina Wilch and Ruby Roy -- Jay Baruch -- Susan Croft -- Ian G. Dorward -- Doug Guildford -- Pam Hall -- J. David Holbrook -- Jill Leahman -- Robert Maunder -- Pamela Stewart -- Eileen Valinoti -- Paul Whang -- Arthur Robinson Williams.

Body and Soul features inspiring and award-winning fiction, essays, memoirs, poetry, photography, and visual art on the universal themes of wellness, treatment, and healing.



9781442661813


Medicine--Literary collections.
Medicine--Literary collections.


Electronic Books.

PR9185 / .B639 2011