Suffering In The Land Of Sunshine

Author : Emily Abel
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780813542386

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Suffering in the Land of Sunshine by Emily Abel Pdf

The history of medicine is much more than the story of doctors, nurses, and hospitals. Seeking to understand the patient’s perspective, historians scour the archives, searching for rare personal accounts. Bringing together a trove of more than 400 family letters by Charles Dwight Willard, Suffering in the Land of Sunshine provides a unique window into the experience of sickness. A Los Angeles civic leader at the turn of the twentieth century, Willard is well known to historians of the West, but exclusively for his public life as a booster and reformer. Willard’s evocative story offers fresh insights into several critical issues, including how concepts of gender, class, and race shape patients’ representations of their illness, how expectations of cure affect the illness experience, how different cultures constrain the coping strategies of the sick, and why robust health is such an exalted value in certain societies.

Author : Emily K. Abel
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469661797

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Sick and Tired by Emily K. Abel Pdf

Medicine finally has discovered fatigue. Recent articles about various diseases conclude that fatigue has been underrecognized, underdiagnosed, and undertreated. Scholars in the social sciences and humanities have also ignored the phenomenon. As a result, we know little about what it means to live with this condition, especially given its diverse symptoms and causes. Emily K. Abel offers the first history of fatigue, one that is scrupulously researched but also informed by her own experiences as a cancer survivor. Abel reveals how the limits of medicine and the American cultural emphasis on productivity intersect to stigmatize those with fatigue. Without an agreed-upon approach to confirm the problem through medical diagnosis, it is difficult to convince others that it is real. When fatigue limits our ability to work, our society sees us as burdens or worse. With her engaging and informative style, Abel gives us a synthetic history of fatigue and elucidates how it has been ignored or misunderstood, not only by medical professionals but also by American society as a whole.

Author : Emily K. Abel
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813539013

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Suffering in the Land of Sunshine by Emily K. Abel Pdf

The history of medicine is much more than the story of doctors, nurses, and hospitals. Seeking to understand the patient's perspective, historians scour the archives, searching for rare personal accounts. Bringing together a trove of more than 400 family letters by Charles Dwight Willard, Suffering in the Land of Sunshine provides a unique window into the experience of sickness. A Los Angeles civic leader at the turn of the twentieth century, Willard is well known to historians of the West, but exclusively for his public life as a booster and reformer. Willard's evocative story offers fresh insights into several critical issues, including how concepts of gender, class, and race shape patients' representations of their illness, how expectations of cure affect the illness experience, how different cultures constrain the coping strategies of the sick, and why robust health is such an exalted value in certain societies.

Author : William Deverell,Greg Hise
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822973119

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Land of Sunshine by William Deverell,Greg Hise Pdf

Most people equate Los Angeles with smog, sprawl, forty suburbs in search of a city-the great "what-not-to-do" of twentieth-century city building. But there's much more to LA's story than this shallow stereotype. History shows that Los Angeles was intensely, ubiquitously planned. The consequences of that planning-the environmental history of urbanism—is one place to turn for the more complex lessons LA has to offer. Working forward from ancient times and ancient ecologies to the very recent past, Land of Sunshine is a fascinating exploration of the environmental history of greater Los Angeles. Rather than rehearsing a litany of errors or insults against nature, rather than decrying the lost opportunities of "roads not taken," these essays, by nineteen leading geologists, ecologists, and historians, instead consider the changing dynamics both of the city and of nature. In the nineteenth century, for example, "density" was considered an evil, and reformers struggled mightily to move the working poor out to areas where better sanitation and flowers and parks "made life seem worth the living." We now call that vision "sprawl," and we struggle just as much to bring middle-class people back into the core of American cities. There's nothing natural, or inevitable, about such turns of events. It's only by paying very close attention to the ways metropolitan nature has been constructed and construed that meaningful lessons can be drawn. History matters. So here are the plants and animals of the Los Angeles basin, its rivers and watersheds. Here are the landscapes of fact and fantasy, the historical actors, events, and circumstances that have proved transformative over and over again. The result is a nuanced and rich portrait of Los Angeles that will serve planners, communities, and environmentalists as they look to the past for clues, if not blueprints, for enhancing the quality and viability of cities.

Author : Lawrence Culver
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199700035

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The Frontier of Leisure by Lawrence Culver Pdf

Southern California has long been promoted as the playground of the world, the home of resort-style living, backyard swimming pools, and year-round suntans. Tracing the history of Southern California from the late nineteenth century through the late twentieth century, The Frontier of Leisure reveals how this region did much more than just create lavish resorts like Santa Catalina Island and Palm Springs--it literally remade American attitudes towards leisure. Lawrence Culver shows how this "culture of leisure" gradually took hold with an increasingly broad group of Americans, and ultimately manifested itself in suburban developments throughout the Sunbelt and across the United States. He further shows that as Southern Californians promoted resort-style living, they also encouraged people to turn inward, away from public spaces and toward their private homes and communities. Impressively researched, a fascinating and lively read, this finely nuanced history connects Southern Californian recreation and leisure to larger historical themes, including regional development, architecture and urban planning, race relations, Indian policy, politics, suburbanization, and changing perceptions of nature.

Author : Organization of American Historians. Meeting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Historians
ISBN : IND:30000111022061

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OAH Annual Meeting by Organization of American Historians. Meeting Pdf

Author : Organization of American Historians. Meeting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Historians
ISBN : UCSC:32106020343247

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Program of the ... Annual Meeting by Organization of American Historians. Meeting Pdf

Author : American Historical Association. Meeting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435079285193

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Program of the ... Annual Meeting by American Historical Association. Meeting Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Pacific States
ISBN : UCSC:32106006164880

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Out West Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harold E. Dregne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Agricultural productivity
ISBN : UIUC:30112018979341

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Impact of Land Degradation on Future World Food Production by Harold E. Dregne Pdf

Author : Marshall S. Clough
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555875378

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Mau Mau Memoirs by Marshall S. Clough Pdf

Clough (history, U. of Northern Colorado) analyzes 13 personal accounts by Kenyans in order to make a case for not only their historical value, but their role in the struggle to define the importance of Mau Mau within Kenyan historiography and politics. He argues that the recollections of the authors, whose experiences ranged from organizing the secret movement, to supplying the guerillas, to active fighting, to resistance in the British detention camps, serve to refute both the British and Kenyan versions of the revolt. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Burney J. Yeo
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385414365

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Health Resorts and Their Uses. Being Vacation Studies in Various Health Resorts by Burney J. Yeo Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : Suranjana Choudhury,Nabanita Sengupta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000508895

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Understanding Women’s Experiences of Displacement by Suranjana Choudhury,Nabanita Sengupta Pdf

The South Asian region has been especially prone to mass displacement and relocations owing to its varied geographical settings as well as socio-political factors. This book examines the women’s perspective on issues related to displacement, loss, conflict, and rehabilitation. It maps the diverse engagements with women’s experiences of displacement in the South Asian region through a nuanced examination of unexplored literary narratives, life writing and memoirs, cultural discourses, and social practices. The book explores themes like sexuality and the female body, women and the national identity, violence against women in Indian Partition narratives, and stories of exile in real life and fairy tales. It also offers an understanding of the ruptures created by dislocation and exile in memory, identity, and culture by analyzing the spaces occupied by displaced women and their lived experiences. The volume looks at the multiplicity of reasons behind women’s displacement and offers a wider perspective on the intersections between gender, migration, and marginalization. This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of cultural studies, literature, gender studies, conflict studies, development studies, South Asian studies, refugee studies, diaspora studies, and sociology.

Author : Christopher Newell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317955207

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Voices in Disability and Spirituality from the Land Down Under by Christopher Newell Pdf

An excellent source of information and ideas on the relationship between disability and spirituality—and how to improve it This one-of-a-kind collection explores the relationship between spirituality and disability from a variety of Australian religious and spiritual viewpoints. Authors from a wide range of backgrounds—some with disabilities, some without—draw remarkable insights from Christian, Jewish, Buddhist (and even non-religious) spirituality. These uniquely Australian perspectives provide practical and spiritual lessons that can be applied in any part of the world. Voices in Disability and Spirituality from the Land Down Under presents an unflinching look at the shortcomings of many established church ministries when it comes to serving people with disabilities. There’s also an extraordinary interview with a severely disabled nonreligious woman in the final stage of her life and her caretaker, which presents a very revealing look at the essence of human spirituality as it exists even in the absence of religious dogma. In addition, you’ll find a revealing case study focusing on the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA), which looks at the gap between its official theology and its actual policy and practice, and outlines a project designed to move the Church forward to more inclusive practices. Additionally, Voices in Disability and Spirituality from the Land Down Under: Outback to Outfront examines: why platitudes that are intended to give comfort, like “God has chosen this for you,” “It’s a test of your faith,” or “We all have our crosses to carry” are at best problematic, and at worst damaging—with suggestions for pastoral responses that offer alternatives to “God-is-on-your-side” clichés the spiritual meaning and importance of community for people with disabilities, and the impact of community on their vitality and resiliency the Buddhist teaching called sunyata, or emptiness, and its potential to positively impact the lives of people with intellectual disabilities and those who know them wisdom contained in the ancient Jewish system of laws called Halacha—and its potential for empowering people with disabilities today how a pastoral care program that is flexible, accommodating, and relevant for disabled people was created at a small metropolitan school in New South Wales—and the effect of the program on the community the work of the Personal Advocacy Service, which recruits volunteers to be companions to people with intellectual disabilities the role of religion and philanthropy in the creation of educational programs for blind or vision-impaired students and more

Author : Charles Edwards Lester
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385478169

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America's Advancement by Charles Edwards Lester Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.