Healing The Republic

Author : Joan Burbick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521454344

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Healing the Republic by Joan Burbick Pdf

In this study Joan Burbick interprets nineteenth-century narratives of health written by physicians, social reformers, lay healers, and literary artists in order to expose the conflicts underlying the creation of a national culture in America. These "fictions" of health include annual reports of mental asylums, home physician manuals, social reform books, and novels consumed by the middle class that functioned as cautionary tales of well-being. Read together these writings engage in a counterpoint of voices at once constructing and debating the hegemonic values of the emerging American nation. That political values flow from the daily exigencies of survival and enjoyment is one of the claims advanced by theorists of cultural hegemony. Broadening this assumption, the narratives of health presented here address the demands and desires of everyday life and construct a national discourse with directives on control, authority, and subordination. They articulate the wish for a healthy citizenry, freed of pain and saturated with well-being, and they insist upon specific ideologies and knowledges of the body in order to achieve this radiance of health. Divided into two parts, the work first examines the structures of authority found in health narratives and then studies the topology of the body found in a cross section of writings. The first part examines how the authority of "common sense" is pitted against that of physiological law and its transcendent "constitution" for the body. The second analyzes how specific knowledges about the brain, heart, nerves, and eye provide individual "keys" to health, indices that reveal the conflicts inherent in American nationalism. In studying thesenarratives of health, Healing the Republic confronts what Burbick sees as a certain fundamental uneasiness about democracy in America. Fearing the political freedom they hoped to embrace. Americans designed ways to control the body in the effort to create, impose, or encompass social order in a corporeal politics whose influences are felt to this day.

Author : Jana Pesoutová
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9088907641

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Indigenous Ancestors and Healing Landscapes by Jana Pesoutová Pdf

This study focuses on current healing practices from a cultural memory perspective.

Author : Vanessa Oliver
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442662360

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Healing Home by Vanessa Oliver Pdf

Based on research that was awarded the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal, Healing Home is an exploration of the lives and health of young women experiencing homelessness. Vanessa Oliver employs an innovative methodology that blends sociology and storytelling practices to investigate these women’s access to health services, their understandings of health and health care delivery, and their health-seeking behaviours. Through their life stories, Oliver demonstrates how personal and social experiences shape health outcomes. In contrast to many previous studies that have focused on the deficits of these young people, Healing Home is both youth-centric and youth-positive in its approach: by foregrounding the narratives of the women themselves, Oliver empowers a sub-section of the population that traditionally has not had a voice in determining policies that shape their realities. Applying a strong, articulate, and systemic analysis to on-the-ground narratives, Oliver is able to offer fresh, incisive recommendations for health and social service providers with the potential to effect real-world change for this marginalized population.

Author : Margaret E. Boyle,Sarah E. Owens
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487505189

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Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World by Margaret E. Boyle,Sarah E. Owens Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and experiences are tied to gender.

Author : Saeeda Hafiz
Publisher : Parallax Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781946764058

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The Healing by Saeeda Hafiz Pdf

In this memoir of upward mobility through an unexpected route, a young black American woman signs up for lessons in yoga and clean eating as signifiers of her new middle class status, little realizing that her new lifestyle will bring her face to face with the inner demons fed by the domestic violence, addiction, and poverty she witnessed as a child. Graduating, getting established in your career, and dating another professional are things many young middle-class women expect to do and take for granted. But when your parents don't support you and you have siblings in prison, those milestones seem monumental. What does growing up poor do to your self-esteem? How do patterns of stress and family violence, poor diet and poor health continue to affect you even after you escape to a higher income bracket? And what can one woman do to turn around the cycle of racism, poverty, and intergenerational suffering? Hafiz gives a frank account of the anxiety and rewards of becoming "middle class" through a complete change of diet and adopting habits such as traveling and doing yoga. While her peers pursue one kind of African American dream by climbing the corporate ladder, Hafiz finds meaning in learning to cook macrobiotic food and practice meditation. By doing so, she recovers from chronic health conditions and heals from the family trauma she has inherited.

Author : TJ Hinrichs,Linda L. Barnes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674047372

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Chinese Medicine and Healing by TJ Hinrichs,Linda L. Barnes Pdf

In covering the subject of Chinese medicine, this book addresses topics such as oracle bones, the treatment of women, fertility and childbirth, nutrition, acupuncture, and Qi as well as examining Chinese medicine as practiced globally in places such as Africa, Australia, Vietnam, Korea, and the United States.

Author : Ronald George Moore,Stuart McClean
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Alternative medicine
ISBN : 1845456726

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Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland by Ronald George Moore,Stuart McClean Pdf

"'This is a fascinating and beautiful organized and written manuscript'-Rebecca Lester, Washington University in St. Louis.

Author : Svetlana Malkhazova,Dmitry Orlov,Natalia Shartova,Sergey Starikov,Tatiana Puzanova
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030835347

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Healing Springs of Russia by Svetlana Malkhazova,Dmitry Orlov,Natalia Shartova,Sergey Starikov,Tatiana Puzanova Pdf

This book provides the first diverse and multifaceted textual and cartographic overview of natural curative resources of mineral waters and peloids in Russia. In a readily understandable way the book informs about the genesis, history of exploration and geographical features of water springs, their properties and use as healing springs, as well as specifics and prospect of their contemporary use. The monograph features numerous color illustrations and photos and is oriented toward a general audience but also appeals to geographers, environmental and public health workers and other specialists interested in environmental and public health issues.

Author : Frank N. Pieke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351761673

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People's Republic of China, Volumes I and II by Frank N. Pieke Pdf

This title was first published in 2002. This two volume set collects in a conveniently accessible form the most influential articles by leading authorities in the study of China. It provides an international reference work, combined with an authoritative introduction by the editor.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Political science
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019368075

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The Republic of Plato by Plato Pdf

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600089985

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The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan by Plato Pdf

Author : Pavlina Klemm
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781644118306

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Pleiadian Soul Healing by Pavlina Klemm Pdf

A guide to recovering your soul and healing the karmic past • Provides high-vibration number sequences, visualizations, and exercises to help retrieve lost soul parts, dissolve artificially encoded consciousness programs, repair your DNA, and amplify the vibration of love • Describes the energetic changes happening on Earth and how they affect us • Explains how to remember your Pleiadian essence, which will help you activate and strengthen your healing abilities and live out your higher purpose Speaking through healer and channel Pavlina Klemm, the higher beings known as the Pleiadians share healing wisdom to assist humanity as we ascend into the light-filled dimensions of consciousness. In this high-vibration book, the Pleiadians describe the radical energetic changes currently happening on Earth and how they affect us. They also share how the manipulation of humanity in the past can be healed and our lost soul parts recovered. Through their messages, the Pleiadians describe how, due to the ongoing influx of Cosmic Light to planet Earth, processing and healing the karmic situation of humanity as a whole is now possible. They explore the healing of the natural feminine and masculine power, with a focus on nurturing all souls, families, and children in the world, and offer exercises to amplify the vibration of love. Detailing the spiritual, genetic, and karmic manipulation that humanity has endured over the millennia, the Pleiadians offer sacred number sequences and visualizations to support you in dissolving artificially encoded consciousness programs as well as releasing negativities from your soul, mind, body, and energy body. They explain how to retrieve lost soul parts, reprogram yourself to tune in to light energy, and heal, regenerate, and protect your DNA by bringing the inner light back to your cells and connecting with the Divine Source. The Pleiadians also explore how to remember your Pleiadian soul parts, which will help you activate and strengthen your healing abilities and live out your higher purpose in this incarnation. An illuminating and practical guide to healing at the soul level and beyond, Pleiadian Soul Healing also includes introductions from the members of the Pleiadian Ambassador Group behind the wisdom transmissions, who each offer loving support for our spiritual growth as well as positive glimpses of the peaceful, light-filled future to come.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Spiritual healing
ISBN : NYPL:33433003134305

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Leaves of Healing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Wehner
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780062820815

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The Death of Politics by Peter Wehner Pdf

The New York Times opinion writer, media commentator, outspoken Republican and Christian critic of the Trump presidency offers a spirited defense of politics and its virtuous and critical role in maintaining our democracy and what we must do to save it before it is too late. “Any nation that elects Donald Trump to be its president has a remarkably low view of politics.” Frustrated and feeling betrayed, Americans have come to loathe politics with disastrous results, argues Peter Wehner. In this timely manifesto, the veteran of three Republican administrations and man of faith offers a reasoned and persuasive argument for restoring “politics” as a worthy calling to a cynical and disillusioned generation of Americans. Wehner has long been one of the leading conservative critics of Donald Trump and his effect on the Republican Party. In this impassioned book, he makes clear that unless we overcome the despair that has caused citizens to abandon hope in the primary means for improving our world—the political process—we will not only fall victim to despots but hasten the decline of what has truly made America great. Drawing on history and experience, he reminds us of the hard lessons we have learned about how we rule ourselves—why we have checks and balances, why no one is above the law, why we defend the rights of even those we disagree with. Wehner believes we can turn the country around, but only if we abandon our hatred and learn to appreciate and honor the unique and noble American tradition of doing “politics.” If we want the great American experiment to continue and to once again prosper, we must once more take up the responsibility each and every one of us as citizens share.

Author : Sister Dang Nghiem
Publisher : Parallax Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781935209850

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Healing by Sister Dang Nghiem Pdf

This extraordinary story takes the reader from the rice fields of Vietnam to the peaceful surrounding of Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastery in Plum Village where Sister Dang Nghiem took refuge. There she gained a deep understanding of the Buddhist teachings of mindfulness forged in the fire of her own life experience. Ordained as a nun by Thich Nhat Hanh, who gave her the name "Dang Nghiem," (adornment with nondiscrimination) Healing shows how the insights gained by her personal experiences now enable Sister Dang Nghiem to become a support and resource for others. With humor, insight, and an irrepressible sense of joy, Sister Dang Nghiem story demonstrates how one woman’s unique path can provide clarity and guidance for everyone. Foreword by Thich Nhat Hanh