A Troubled Dream

Author : Daniel Callahan
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589014718
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Troubled Dream of Life written by Daniel Callahan and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his own experience, and on literature, philosophy, and medicine, Daniel Callahan offers great insight into how to deal with the rewards of modern medicine without upsetting our perception of death. He examines how we view death and the care of the critically ill or dying, and he suggests ways of understanding death that can lead to a peaceful acceptance. Callahan's thoughtful perspective notably enhances the legal and moral discussions about end-of-life issues. Originally published in 1993 by Simon and Schuster.

Author : Keith Wailoo
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801889367
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine written by Keith Wailoo and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-05-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the History of Science category of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards given by the Association of American Publishers Why do racial and ethnic controversies become attached, as they often do, to discussions of modern genetics? How do theories about genetic difference become entangled with political debates about cultural and group differences in America? Such issues are a conspicuous part of the histories of three hereditary diseases: Tay-Sachs, commonly identified with Jewish Americans; cystic fibrosis, often labeled a "Caucasian" disease; and sickle cell disease, widely associated with African Americans. In this captivating account, historians Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton reveal how these diseases—fraught with ethnic and racial meanings for many Americans—became objects of biological fascination and crucibles of social debate. Peering behind the headlines of breakthrough treatments and coming cures, they tell a complex story: about different kinds of suffering and faith, about unequal access to the promises and perils of modern medicine, and about how Americans consume innovation and how they come to believe in, or resist, the notion of imminent medical breakthroughs. With Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell disease as a powerful backdrop, the authors provide a glimpse into a diverse America where racial ideologies, cultural politics, and conflicting beliefs about the power of genetics shape disparate health care expectations and experiences.

Author : Daniel Callahan
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 0878408150
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Troubled Dream of Life written by Daniel Callahan and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his own experience, and on literature, philosophy, and medicine, Daniel Callahan offers great insight into how to deal with the rewards of modern medicine without upsetting our perception of death. He examines how we view death and the care of the critically ill or dying, and he suggests ways of understanding death that can lead to a peaceful acceptance. Callahan's thoughtful perspective notably enhances the legal and moral discussions about end-of-life issues. Originally published in 1993 by Simon and Schuster.

Author : Jacques Compton
Publisher : Hansib Publishing (Caribbean), Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781906190132
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Troubled Dream written by Jacques Compton and published by Hansib Publishing (Caribbean), Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years after the Second World War, many West Indians came to live and work in Britain - the country which, only a few years earlier, many had fought to protect - following recruitment drives by such institutions as London Transport and the National Health Service. These new arrivals sought a life of prosperity in the mother country', but in reality they were often faced with a hostile and unwelcoming environment. A TROUBLED DREAM tells the story of a young couple whose lives reflect the continuing dilemmas faced by West Indians in English society.'

Author : Stan Berenstain
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0449812596
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Berenstain Bears and the Bad Dream written by Stan Berenstain and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic First Time Book® from Stan and Jan Berenstain. Brother and Sister have started having bad dreams. Now it’s up to Mama and Papa to help them understand that even though bad dreams can be scary, they aren’t real. This beloved story is a perfect way to allay any child’s worries about bedtime and nightmares.

Author : Samuel Garcia
Publisher : Samuel Garcia
ISBN 13 : 1604741694
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trouble with Dreams written by Samuel Garcia and published by Samuel Garcia. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A jovial teen endangers his life and pays for it throughout high school. He begins to fear he will never live a normal life again. He immediately falls in love and hopes the girl will make it all better. When the girl doesn’t fall in love with him, he spirals down into a depression. He turns to drugs and drinking to alleviate his problems, but they only make them worse. He is an emotional wreck and a recluse when he leaves his family to go to college in New York. There he tries to forget the past horrible year, but the past continues to haunt him and his dreams. His dreams become more vivid and more disturbing. When he returns home, he realizes he’s still in love. He then goes back to school and is determined to throw his emotions away and forget her and his dreams.

Author : James H. Cone
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 0883448246
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martin & Malcolm & America written by James H. Cone and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reexamines the ideology of the two most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1960s

Author : Steve Peifer
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310587158
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dream So Big written by Steve Peifer and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dream So Big is the story of Steve Peifer, a corporate manager who once oversaw 9,000 computer software consultants, who today helps provide daily lunches for over 20,000 Kenyan school children in thirty-five national public schools, and maintains solar-powered computer labs at twenty rural African schools. Steve and his wife, Nancy, were enjoying a successful management career with one of America’s high tech corporate giants during the dot-com boom of the 1990’s when, in 1997, he and his wife Nancy discovered they were pregnant with their third child. Tragically, doctors said a chromosomal condition left their baby “incompatible with life.” The Peifers only spent 8 days with baby Stephen before he died. Seeking to flee the pain, Steve and Nancy began a pilgrimage that thrust them into a third-world setting where daily life was often defined by tragedy—drought, disease, poverty, hunger, and death. They didn’t arrive in the service of any divine calling, but the truth of their surroundings spoke to their troubled hearts. A short-term, 12-month mission assignment as dorm parents for a Kenyan boarding school turned this ordinary man into the most unlikely internationally recognized hero, and his story will inspire you to pursue similar lives of service.

Author : Joe Griffin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899398423
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why We Dream written by Joe Griffin and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why we dream: the definitive answer tells the remarkable story of how Joe Griffin discovered how and why dreaming evolved in mammals and helped us unravel what our dreams actually mean. Thanks to Griffin's work we now know what dreams are doing for us: they keep us sane, or, in certain circumstances, can drive us mad (psychotic). And this knowledge opens up wonderful new possibilities for humanity: greater creativity; improved mental health and deeper understanding of who we are. Griffin and Tyrrell convincingly show that dreaming is vital for mental health and that the brain state we associate with dreaming (the REM state) also has crucial importance for when we are awake. This understanding of the REM state explains not only how our brains construct a model of reality, but also explains hypnosis, how creative behaviour works, and why we develop mental illnesses such as depression and psychosis.

Author : Gyula Krudy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964473416
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Dreams written by Gyula Krudy and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abridged English translation of Hungarian novelist Gyula Krudy's best-selling work, published on the 100th anniversary of its first edition in 1920. This book explains the meaning of dreams and the things that one encounters in dreams, arranged alphabetically from Acacia Tree to Zinc. Krudy draws his research from Hungarian and Russian dream interpretation texts dating back to 1759, interviews with his soothsayer grandmother, the writings of Sigmund Freud and Freud's Hungarian contemporary, Dr. Sandor Ferenczi, and pillow talk from Krudy's mistresses. Krudy ad-libbed mischievously on these so-called scholarly sources, as his distinctive style of prose is recognizable by any Krudy fan. Translated by Robert Elton Brooker lll and Robert Zebulon Erdos.