The Arduous Touch

Author : Amy Marie Haddad
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557531544
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arduous Touch written by Amy Marie Haddad and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holding a dead baby. Standing up to a supervisor. Washing a bedridden patient's hair. Talking past and through one another in a case conference. Smoothing a sheet over a patient's disintegrating body. Firing a longtime friend and co-worker. Literature can be a rich source of guidance to help with contemporary ethical dilemmas facing health care professionals and patients. Poems and stories can help to identify moral problems, promote empathy, and tolerate ambiguity in health and illness. The depth and detail within stories and poems allow readers to experience the contradictory feelings, complex relationships, and situational messiness that characterize ethical quandaries in actual practice. These works by women in health care contribute to our understanding by introducing characters who struggle with illness and aging or who try to make sense of their own feelings in the face of pain and mortality. Who better to capture the essence of this complexity than people working directly within it?

Author : Elaine C. Pereira
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1938908589
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Will Never Forget written by Elaine C. Pereira and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is painfully difficult to watch a loved one decline as dementia ravages their mind, destroying memories, rational thinking, and judgment. In her touching memoir, I Will Never Forget, Elaine Pereira shares the heartbreaking and humorous story of her mother’s incredible journey through dementia. Pereira begins with entertaining glimpses into her own childhood and feisty teenage years, demonstrating her mother’s strength of character. Years later, as Betty Ward started to exhibit bizarre behaviors and paranoia, Pereira was mystified by her mom’s amazing ability to mask the truth. Not until a revealing incident over an innocuous drapery rod did Pereira recognize the extent of her mother’s Alzheimer’s. As their roles shifted and a new paradigm emerged, Pereira transformed into a caregiver blindly navigating dementia’s unpredictable haze. But before Betty’s passing, she orchestrated a stunning rally to control her own destiny via a masterful, Houdini-like escape. I Will Never Forget is a powerful heartwarming story that helps others know that they are not alone in their journey. “Poignant, shocking, and honest … far more than just words on paper. If you or someone you know is living through the hell of dementia, you need this book!” —Ionia Martin, developer of Readful Things Reviews and Alzheimer’s caregiver

Author : Barbara Cartland
Publisher : Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN 13 : 1908303336
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touching the Stars written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When compromised by Sir Thomas Watson in her cabin enroute to India, Justina Mansell agrees to become engaged to him much to the dismay of Lord Castleton.

Author : Judy Schaefer
Publisher : Radcliffe Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846194172
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Onion Nurse written by Judy Schaefer and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wild onion is an everyday plant, but rewardingly flavorsome and beautiful when closely examined - hence the choice of 'Wild Onions' as the title of the literary journal for and by Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine students, in which nurse and poet Judy Schaefer's work was first published in 1984. In the years since, Schaefer has become a key figure both as a nurse-poet in her own right, and in showcasing poetry and creative writing by other nurses, providing insights into the experience of delivering healthcare in a system burdened by cost and regulation. Here she selects a quarter of a century of her own poetry first published in 'Wild Onions', a collection which will be essential reading for nurses, students and researchers in the medical humanities, and all readers with an interest in poetry or healthcare.

Author : Sidney Homan
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557534866
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fish in the Moonlight written by Sidney Homan and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The storyteller has a fascinating place in our world. Storyteller Sidney Homan tells tales of growing up in Philadelphia in the 1940s and 50saâ'¬accounts of Bruzzy the Bully; of John Crapp, the television salesman; of Leslie Doober and his rotten banana; of drunken Uncle Eddie, and of the Queen of the mushrooms. Sometimes comic, sometimes bittersweet, A Fish in the Moonlight illuminates the growth of both storyteller and listener.

Author : Amy Haddad
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496231058
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Otherwise Healthy Woman written by Amy Haddad and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Place in Creative Works from the American Journal of Nursing's Book of the Year Awards Second Place in Professional Issues from the American Journal of Nursing's Book of the Year Awards The poems in An Otherwise Healthy Woman delve into the complexity of modern health care, illness, and healing, offering an alternative narrative to heroics and miracles. Drawing on Amy Haddad's firsthand experiences as a nurse and patient, the poems in this collection teach us to take a moment to stop and acknowledge the longing for compassion in each of us, what ought to be the immediate human response to suffering. The poet isn't afraid to explore her own fears and failures or to find joy and humor in the many roles women play. An Otherwise Healthy Woman presents the intimate experiences of a nurse, the vulnerable perspective of a patient, and the lessons of caring for family.

Author : Michael Harris
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838632727
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Press in English Society from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries written by Michael Harris and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1986 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Saloni Mathur
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351556231
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying written by Saloni Mathur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a range of essays that offer a new perspective on the dynamic history of the museum as a cultural institution in South Asia. It traces the museum from its origin as a tool of colonialism and adoption as a vehicle of sovereignty in the nationalist period, till its role in the present, as it reflects the fissured identities of the post-colonial period.

Author : Daniel Kemp
Publisher : Westgate Co
ISBN 13 : 9780944087138
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Night written by Daniel Kemp and published by Westgate Co. This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am of that group of souls who sit forever apart. We are outcast, unfit; the lonely and the lost. We are the ugly, the strange, the introspective. We love darkness, for the darkness is a great equaliser. To lover Her one must be alone, with Her. She comes to all who cry out within whirling starlight, drunk with the gaseous vapour of nebulae. Inhaling the vigour of eternity, exhaling the laughter of mad intoxication. The benison of night is open to all.

Author : Tim Testu
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614293449
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touching Ground written by Tim Testu and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vivid story of a hippie, a carpenter, a Vietnam vet, an alcoholic, a marine engineer, and a great dad who battled his demons on the Buddhist path. From October 16, 1973, to August 17, 1974, Tim Testu walked all the way from San Francisco to Seattle, bowing his head to the ground every three steps. And that’s not even the best part of his story. Tim Testu was one of the very first Americans to take ordination in Chinese Zen Buddhism. His path—from getting kicked out of school to joyriding in stolen boats in the Navy to squatting in an anarchist commune to wholehearted spiritual engagment in a strict Buddhist monastery—is equal parts rollicking adventure and profound spiritual memoir. Touching Ground is simultaneously larger than life and entirely relatable; even as Tim finds his spiritual home with his teacher, the legendary Chan master Hsuan Hua, he nonetheless continues to struggle to overcome his addictions and his very human shortcomings. Tim never did anything halfway, including both drinking and striving for liberation. He died of leukemia in 1998 after packing ten lifetimes into fifty-two years.