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Offers valuable insights and inspiration for any practitioner working in a palliative care setting. Australian contributor.
"The story of the indomitable American POWs who endured "Alcatraz," the Hanoi prison camp where North Vietnam locked its most dangerous and subversive prisoners, and the wives who fought to bring them home. During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners of war faced year…
Who of the British went to India, and why? We know about Kipling and Forster, Orwell and Scott, but what of the youthful forestry official, the enterprising boxwallah, the fervid missionary? What motivated them to travel halfway around the globe, what lives did they lead when th…
Stories of the missing offer profound insights into the tension between how political systems see us and how we see each other. The search for people who go missing as a result of war, political violence, genocide, or natural disaster reveals how forms of governance that objecti…
Bereavement is often treated as a psychological condition of the individual, with both healthy and pathological forms. However, this empirically-grounded study argues that this is not always the best or only way to help the bereaved, and instead emphasizes normality and social a…
Autism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation. Understanding Autism, a social history of the expandi…
"Exploring what it is like to be an adolescent with Asperger syndrome through interviews with Teodor, a 'psychologically unusual' twelve-year-old, this book combines an autobiographical account of Asperger syndrome with perspectives from other family members and people who know …
