Malady And Mortality

Author : Helen Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443896559

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This ground-breaking study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the chronically ill, their families and carers, medics, artists, photographers, authors, and academics. It encourages a re-examination of cultural taboos and visual and literary practices that engage with illness and death. Focusing upon a wide range of creative and critical engagements, this book makes a significant contribution to the medical humanities via its exploration of medical practice, literature and film, digital media studies, graphic design, and both contemporary and historical attitudes towards illness, death (including infant mortality), mourning and bereavement. For some, the experience of illness provokes feelings of exile, crisis or social critique, whilst for others it instigates utopian discourses predicated upon personal reflection, communication or connectivity, wherein the “self” is redefined beyond the parameters and constraints of the “body”.

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Signal
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771039232

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Mortality by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

Based on his columns in Vanity Fair that chronicled his year-and-a-half battle with esophageal cancer, Mortality is Christopher Hitchens at his most honest and reflective . Thoughtfully meditating on the harrowing effects of illness and treatment on the body, and on the impermanence and acceptance of a life ending, Mortality is Hitchens' magnum opus, and in true Hitchens form, he has the last word.

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781455517824

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Mortality by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, he suddenly found himself being deported "from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady." Over the next eighteen months, until his death in Houston on December 15, 2011, he wrote constantly and brilliantly on politics and culture, astonishing readers with his capacity for superior work even in extremis. Throughout the course of his ordeal battling esophageal cancer, Hitchens adamantly and bravely refused the solace of religion, preferring to confront death with both eyes open. In this riveting account of his affliction, Hitchens poignantly describes the torments of illness, discusses its taboos, and explores how disease transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us. By turns personal and philosophical, Hitchens embraces the full panoply of human emotions as cancer invades his body and compels him to grapple with the enigma of death. MORTALITY is the exemplary story of one man's refusal to cower in the face of the unknown, as well as a searching look at the human predicament. Crisp and vivid, veined throughout with penetrating intelligence, Hitchens's testament is a courageous and lucid work of literature, an affirmation of the dignity and worth of man.

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 176052879X

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Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers.

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Atheists
ISBN : 1742374611

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Mortality by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers.

Author : Timothy Snyder
Publisher : Crown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780593238899

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Our Malady by Timothy Snyder Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny comes an impassioned condemnation of America's pandemic response and an urgent call to rethink health and freedom. On December 29, 2019, historian Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. Unable to stand, barely able to think, he waited for hours in an emergency room before being correctly diagnosed and rushed into surgery. Over the next few days, as he clung to life and the first light of a new year came through his window, he found himself reflecting on the fragility of health, not recognized in America as a human right but without which all rights and freedoms have no meaning. And that was before the pandemic. We have since watched American hospitals, long understaffed and undersupplied, buckling under waves of ill patients. The federal government made matters worse through willful ignorance, misinformation, and profiteering. Our system of commercial medicine failed the ultimate test, and thousands of Americans died. In this eye-opening cri de coeur, Snyder traces the societal forces that led us here and outlines the lessons we must learn to survive. In examining some of the darkest moments of recent history and of his own life, Snyder finds glimmers of hope and principles that could lead us out of our current malaise. Only by enshrining healthcare as a human right, elevating the authority of doctors and medical knowledge, and planning for our children’s future can we create an America where everyone is truly free.

Author : Marguerite Duras
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802190581

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The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras Pdf

“[An] erotic, existential mystery . . . part philosophical meditation, part fantasy” from the Prix Goncourt-winning author of The Lover (The Guardian). A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, a “she,” a warm, moist body with a beating heart—the enigma of Other. Skilled in the mechanics of sex, he desires through her to penetrate a different mystery: he wants to learn to love. It isn’t a matter of will, she tells him. Still, he wants to try . . . This beautifully wrought erotic novel is an extended haiku on the meaning of love, “perhaps a sudden lapse in the logic of the universe,” and its absence, “the malady of death.” “The whole tragedy of the inability to love is in this work, thanks to Duras’ unparalleled art of reinventing the most familiar words, of weighing their meaning.”—Le Monde “Deceptively simple and Racinian in its purity, condensed to the essential.”—Translation Review Praise for Marguerite Duras’s international bestseller, The Lover “Powerful, authentic, completely successful . . . perfect.”—The New York Times Book Review “An exquisite jewel of a novel, as multifaceted as a diamond, as seamless and polished as a pearl.”—Boston Herald “A vivid, lingering novel . . . a brilliant work of art.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer

Author : Great Britain. General Register Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : CORNELL:31924092995459

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Sixty-fourth-Eighty-second Annual Report of the Registrar-general of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England and Wales (1901-1919) by Great Britain. General Register Office Pdf

Thirty-third annual report ... abstracts for 1870 includes "summary of marriages, births and deaths registered in ten years 1861-70".

Author : Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781439170915

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The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee Pdf

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103051595

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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11318474

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The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review Or Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Fleming
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368718107

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A Manual of Veterinary Sanitary Science and Police by George Fleming Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author : Etienne Esquirol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Forensic psychiatry
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010249027

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Mental Maladies; a Treatise on Insanity by Etienne Esquirol Pdf

Author : James Carrick Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Smallpox
ISBN : HARVARD:HC21DP

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The History of the Small Pox by James Carrick Moore Pdf

Moore follows the history of the disease from its first recorded appearance in Asia and Africa to Arabia and finally to Europe and America. he then provides a history of treatment, including three chapters on the discovery and reception of inoculation. Moore was an early advocate of vaccination, and this book is dedicated to Edward Jenner. In 1810 Moore was appointed director of the National Vaccine Establishment.

Author : Susana Moreira Marques
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Death
ISBN : 1908276622

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Now and at the Hour of Our Death by Susana Moreira Marques Pdf

A moving exploration of families facing death, in the voices of those affected in one rural corner of Portugal.