"People often claim to experience improved relationships with family and friends, a clearer sense of their own strengths and resilience, changed priorities about what is important in life, and various other positive changes after struggling with stressful or traumatic events. Wh…
The idea that people experience positive change through their struggles with adversity is very old. However, only recently has this idea generated widespread empirical research attention. People often claim to experience improved relationships with family and friends, a clear…
« Philippe Barrier, qui a passé de longues années à faire du diabète son existence même et sa pensée, c’est-à-dire sa force, sa capacité à s’individuer et à être sa blessure, comme disait Joë Bousquet, montre comment la médecine contemporaine en est venue à détruire la relation …
The social medicine reader
Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases, and conceptually and empirically …
Developed collaboratively by a doctor and nurse team, this textbook deals specifically with nursing difficult patients. It gives invaluable practical recommendations, well founded in experience and supported by literature for nurses coping with challenging, real world situations.
Developed collaboratively by a doctor and nurse team, this textbook deals specifically with nursing difficult patients. It gives invaluable practical recommendations, well founded in experience and supported by literature for nurses coping with challenging, real world situations.
Whether patient problems stem from mental distress and ill health, historic substance abuse, demanding family members or abusive behaviour, difficult patients place extra demands on nurses both personally and professionally. This is a practical guide to dealing with these patien…
"This book charts the new directions in theory and research in disability studies, giving purpose and shape to the emerging confluence of ideas between traditionally opposed groups"--Provided by publisher
Using fictionalized case studies this series follows four patients through the medical process, from onset (Symptom) through Diagnosis, Treatment and Prognosis. Volume 1: Symptom. Examines the idea of 'symptom' as a route to understanding the structure of clinical practice -- V…
Medical humanities companion
Using fictionalized case studies this series follows four patients through the medical process, from onset (Symptom) through Diagnosis, Treatment and Prognosis. Volume 1: Symptom. Examines the idea of 'symptom' as a route to understanding the structure of clinical practice -- V…