Health And Sickness In The Early American Novel
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Health And Sickness In The Early American Novel
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Author : Maureen Tuthill
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-09-26
Health And Sickness In The Early American Novel written by Maureen Tuthill and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is a study of depictions of health and sickness in the early American novel, 1787-1808. These texts reveal a troubling tension between the impulse toward social affection that built cohesion in the nation and the pursuit of self-interest that was considered central to the emerging liberalism of the new Republic. Good health is depicted as an extremely positive social value, almost an a priori condition of membership in the community. Characters who have the “glow of health” tend to enjoy wealth and prestige; those who become sick are burdened by poverty and debt or have made bad decisions that have jeopardized their status. Bodies that waste away, faint, or literally disappear off of the pages of America’s first fiction are resisting the conditions that ail them; as they plead for their right to exist, they draw attention to the injustice, apathy, and greed that afflict them.
Sickness And Health In America
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Author : Judith Walzer Leavitt
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1997
Sickness And Health In America written by Judith Walzer Leavitt and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Medical care categories.
Adds 21 new essays and drops some that appeared in the 1984 edition (first in 1978) to reflect recent scholarship and changes in orientation by historians. Adds entirely new clusters on sickness and health, early American medicine, therapeutics, the art of medicine, and public health and personal hygiene. Other discussions are updated to reflect such phenomena as the growing mortality from HIV, homicide, and suicide. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Medical Aesthetics Of The Early American Novel
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Author : Maureen Tuthill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Medical Aesthetics Of The Early American Novel written by Maureen Tuthill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
An American Sickness
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Author : Elisabeth Rosenthal
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-04-11
An American Sickness written by Elisabeth Rosenthal and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-11 with Medical categories.
A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Our politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions only seem to funnel larger and larger sums of our money into the hands of corporations. Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Very quickly Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad so fast? Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries—the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers—that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before. How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry? Hospital systems, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Patients receive bills in code, from entrepreneurial doctors they never even saw. The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. In clear and practical terms, she spells out exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate the maze that is American healthcare and also to demand far-reaching reform. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.
The Cambridge Companion To American Literature And The Body
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Author : Travis M. Foster
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-06-30
The Cambridge Companion To American Literature And The Body written by Travis M. Foster and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume offers a rigorous yet accessible overview of the key questions and intersectional approaches pertaining to American literature and the body. The chapters have been written in an accessible style, making them useful for undergraduates as well as for more experienced researchers.
The Medical Imagination
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Author : Sari Altschuler
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2018-03-20
The Medical Imagination written by Sari Altschuler and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Medical Imagination traces the practice of using imagination and literature to craft, test, and implement theories of health in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. This history of imaginative experimentation provides a usable past for conversations about the role of the humanities in health research and practice today.
Sickness And Health In America
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Author : Judith Walzer Leavitt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Sickness And Health In America written by Judith Walzer Leavitt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Medical care categories.
An invaluable resource for students, scholars, and general readers, this highly regarded and widely used social history of medicine and public health in the United States is now available in a third edition. Extensively revised and updated, it includes twenty-one new essays; graphs illustrating the rise in deaths caused by HIV, homicide, and suicide; and a greatly expanded Guide to Further Reading. Entirely new sections on Sickness and Health, Early American Medicine, Therapeutics, the Art of Medicine, and Public Health and Personal Hygiene have been added, supplementing updated sections on the Science of Medicine, Education, the Allied Health Professions, Image and Income, Institutions, Race and Medicine, Epidemics, Public Health Reform, and Public Health and Medical Theory. An introductory essay and a series of historical photographs complement the articles.
Major Problems In The History Of American Medicine And Public Health
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Author : John Harley Warner
language : en
Publisher: Major Problems in American His
Release Date : 2001
Major Problems In The History Of American Medicine And Public Health written by John Harley Warner and has been published by Major Problems in American His this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Medical categories.
This text presents a carefully selected group of readings on medical history and development that allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions.
A History Of Present Illness
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Author : Anna DeForest
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-08-16
A History Of Present Illness written by Anna DeForest and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-16 with Fiction categories.
This “brutal and brave” (Booklist) novel transmutes the practice of medicine into a larger exploration of humanity, the meaning of care, and the nature of annihilation—physical, spiritual, or both. A young woman puts on a white coat for her first day as a student doctor. So begins this powerful debut, which follows our unnamed narrator through cadaver dissection, surgical rotation, difficult births, sudden deaths, and a budding relationship with a seminarian. In the troubled world of the hospital, where the language of blood tests and organ systems so often hides the heart of the matter, she works her way from one bed to another, from a man dying of substance use and tuberculosis, to a child in pain crisis, to a young woman, fading from confusion to aphasia to death. The long hours and heartrending work begin to blur the lines between her new life as a physician and the lifelong traumas she has fled. In brilliant, wry, and biting prose, A History of Present Illness is a boldly honest meditation on the body, the hope of healing in the face of total loss, and what it means to be alive. 2023 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters • A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2022 • A Publishers Weekly “Writer to Watch” “A revelation.” –The New York Times
Reality And Idea In The Early American Novel
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Author : David H. Hirsch
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-03-22
Reality And Idea In The Early American Novel written by David H. Hirsch and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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