The Loss of Self considers distinctions and connections between the writing of survival and survival as a mode of being and thinking encountered in analytic work with borderline patients....Daugiau...
The Loss of Self considers distinctions and connections between the writing of survival and survival as a mode of being and thinking encountered in analytic work with borderline patients....Daugiau...
The asylum--at once a place of refuge, incarceration, and abuse--touched the lives of many Americans living between 1830 and 1950. What began as a few scattered institutions in the mid-eighteenth century grew to 579 public and private asylums by the...Daugiau...
This book examines writings by people living with Alzheimers Disease and their caregivers. Its focus areas include the construction of the self in the face of diminishing linguistic and cognitive abilities, the stigmatization of ageing, the vario...Daugiau...
Between 1982 and 1993, Susan Sapsed kept a diary that is referred to throughout this book. She began this diary when she was 37 years of age, convinced that she was suffering from Méničres disease (a disorder of the inner ear). Nearly 40 years later...Daugiau...
This book examines writings by people living with Alzheimers Disease and their caregivers. Its focus areas include the construction of the self in the face of diminishing linguistic and cognitive abilities, the stigmatization of ageing, the v...Daugiau...
Patientenbriefe bilden eine Textsorte, die der Sprachwissenschaft bislang unbekannt war. Diese Untersuchung basiert auf einem neu erschlossenen Korpus historischer Patiententexte der suddeutschen psychiatrischen Einrichtung Kaufbeuren-Irsee, die mehr...Daugiau...
Have you ever experienced strange and terrifying dreams? Those that scare you so much you are too afraid to go to sleep again? Well, that was exactly what happened to me. I never expected my nightmare to come true, let alone save my life. But thats...Daugiau...
A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer Jackie Kay, New Statesman The Cancer Journals is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
These poems and extended essay were written during the two years after the author was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Many, though not all, deal with the authors treatment and his reaction to it. They embody his belief that the human condition, thou...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
In 1951, when Jean Anderson was diagnosed with tuberculosis, she was only 13 years old. Jean was separated from her friends, taken from her home and confined in a sanatorium. Now, looking back over the years in Law Hospital, she explains how in spite...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Feb-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517906559)
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
A startlingly powerful collaboration reimagines female beautyWhat is beauty without pain? Compromise is what our culture offers women: cinching, pinching, cutting, shaving, scraping, starving, and, of course, lifting and separat...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Feb-2019, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517906566)
A startlingly powerful collaboration reimagines female beautyWhat is beauty without pain? Compromise is what our culture offers women: cinching, pinching, cutting, shaving, scraping, starving, and, of course, lifting and separat...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Jan-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487504373)
Engaging with discussions surrounding the culture of disease, Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives explores politically insistent narratives of illness. Resisting the optimism of pink ribbon culture, these stories use anger as a starting pla...Daugiau...
Serija: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 25-Dec-2018, Hardback, Leidėjas: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503605152)
At the turn of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was a leading cause of death across America, Europe, and the Russian Empire. The incurable disease gave rise to a culture of convalescence, creating new opportunities for travel and literary refle...Daugiau...
Letters from a stay in a tuberculosis sanatorium plumb losses of youth, of freedom, of life—but also gains in mobility, in education, in friendships, and in love. In October 1943, sixteen-year-old Marilyn Barnes was told that her recent...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
With four children (three of them triplets!) and a marriage break-up to contend with, some things get a little lost in the mix. Like symptoms. Emma Campbell bravely and honestly offers heartfelt thoughts on what happens when cancer becomes an unwelco...Daugiau...
On May 1st 2016 Elle Halliwell, the hugely popular Daily Telegraph Fashion Editor, was diagnosed with leukemia. Two weeks later just as she was telling friends and family about the grim diagnosis she found out she was 4 weeks pregnant with her...Daugiau...
A powerful, inspiring and courageous memoir of cancer and conflict, from the author of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES. Now a critically acclaimed play. A masterpiece NAOMI KLEIN...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 11-Sep-2017, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Brown Dog Books, ISBN-13: 9781785452062)
Coinciding with Dementia Awareness Week in May 2017, The Dot Collective ran a series of storytelling and creative writing workshops with care centres in the South East, where many of the participants live with dementia or severe memory problems....Daugiau...
Shani Raviv is a misfit teen whose peer-pressured diet spirals down into full-blown anorexia nervosasomething no one in her early-nineties, local South African community knows anything about. Fourteen-year-old Shani spends the next six years being ...Daugiau...
Written as a diary, Lisa Primrose goes through the lows and highs of her experiences after being diagnosed with Cancer. She takes the reader on an emotional rollercoaster: always positive but not afraid to give the reader a warts and all descriptio...Daugiau...
Written as a diary, Lisa Primrose goes through the lows and highs of her experiences after being diagnosed with Cancer. She takes the reader on an emotional rollercoaster: always positive but not afraid to give the reader a warts and all descriptio...Daugiau...
This is the first book-length exploration of the thoughts and experiences expressed by dementia patients in published narratives over the last thirty years. It contrasts third-person caregiver and first-person patient accounts in different langu...Daugiau...
How do you go through all the stuff that life throws up for you? Do you talk? Do you walk? Do you draw? Do you journal? Do you pray? Do you look for a book? When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I did all of those things, and this book was my wa...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 11-May-2016, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9780816699438)
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
What kind of cancer is it? was the first question Barbara Brenner asked her doctor after hearing that the lump in her breast was malignant. His answer: You dont need to know that. Wrong response. Brenner, who was already an activist, mad...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 11-May-2016, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9780816699445)
What kind of cancer is it? was the first question Barbara Brenner asked her doctor after hearing that the lump in her breast was malignant. His answer: You dont need to know that. Wrong response. Brenner, who was already an activist, mad...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 25-Sep-2015, Hardback, Leidėjas: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780773545762)
An engaging exploration of the stories our bodies tell and the stories we tell about our bodies. In the second half of the eighteenth century, celebrated Swiss physician Samuel Auguste Tissot (1728-1797) received over 1,200 me...Daugiau...
An engaging exploration of the stories our bodies tell and the stories we tell about our bodies. In the second half of the eighteenth century, celebrated Swiss physician Samuel Auguste Tissot (1728-1797) received over 1,200 me...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
When Jane McGrath met breast care nurse Alison Szwajcer after her diagnosis of secondary breast cancer her words were, Today I met an angel. It was then she realised she could make a difference to all Australians experiencing breast cancer to help...Daugiau...
Reveals the contradictory messages women receive about childbirth, their conflicting expectations about it and how writing and technology contribute to and reconcile these messages and expectations. Original. Feminist rhetorician Owens analyz...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 02-Apr-2015, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Morgan James Publishing llc, ISBN-13: 9781630472672)
There are so many things that we do not have control over, things that we would not ever choose: cancer, loosing a spouse, tragic accidents. But we can choose how we will handle these things. Joy is a choice that anyone can make but not everyone know...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 02-Apr-2015, Hardback, Leidėjas: Morgan James Publishing llc, ISBN-13: 9781630472696)
There are so many things that we do not have control over, things that we would not ever choose: cancer, loosing a spouse, tragic accidents. But we can choose how we will handle these things. Joy is a choice that anyone can make but not everyone know...Daugiau...
