Embracing the wolf : a lupus victim and her family learn to live with chronic disease
Author: Joanna Baumer Permut
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780897830539
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Travels with the Wolf
Author: Melissa Anne Goldstein
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780814208403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Lupus Foundation of America estimates that between .5 and 1.5 million people have been diagnosed with lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease that can attack any part of the body. The elusive nature of the illness often becomes a source of overwhelming helplessness and frustration to its victims, their loved ones, and the physicians who treat it. Narrated through both poetry and prose, Travels with the Wolf is an autobiographical account of Melissa Anne Goldstein's experiences with lupus. It is her story of becoming a young woman, writer, and teacher in the presence of severe, often debilitating disease. It is an exploration of her relationships with her family and friends as the illness steals into their lives, and the record of her struggle to maintain her independence and identity despite disease. Finally, it is an author's journey to find her spiritual core. This book is not just about lupus. Goldstein uses her experience of the illness as well as sociological, literary, and historical research, to portray and understand the dilemmas faced by the chronically ill person in our society. In her conclusion, she calls for reform of today's health care system, which does not meet the needs of the chronically ill or their physicians.
Embracing the Wolf
Author: Joanna Baumer Permut
Publisher: Cherokee Publishing Company (GA)
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Lupus victim and her family learn to live with chronic disease.
In Her Own Time
Author: Jeanne Stevenson Moessner
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2000-05-17
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781451410822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChallenging much in contemporary developmental theory, this book sheds new light on developmental themes, passages, and issues in the lives of women from the perspective of pastoral care. In Her Own Time provides a much-needed framework for the pastoral care of women.
Living Through Pain
Author: Kristin M. Swenson
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1932792155
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In Living Through Pain, Kristin Swenson charts the multifaceted personal and social problems caused by chronic pain. This book also surveys professional efforts to mitigate and manage pain. Because the experience of pain involves all aspects of a person - body, mind, spirit, and community - Swenson consults an ancient resource for wisdom, perspective, and insight. Her close reading of selected psalms from the Hebrew Bible demonstrates that the challenge of living through pain is timeless. Living Through Pain chronicles how these ancient texts offer a vocabulary and grammar for understanding and expressing the contemporary experience of pain. Pain is a universal experience, and this book invites readers to consider more fully what is involved in the process of healing."--BOOK JACKET.
Flannery O'Connor
Author: R. Neil Scott
Publisher: Timberlane Books
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1098
ISBN-13: 9780971542808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEverything You Need to Know About Lupus
Author: André Maraux
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 1999-12-15
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780823932887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains what lupus is, how it is diagnosed and treated, and its effect on a person's life.
Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired
Author: Paul J. Donoghue
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780393034080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsequently, people who suffer from chronic fatigue, chronic pain, and many other miseries often endure not only the ailment but dismissive and negative reactions from others. Since its first publication, Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired has offered hope and coping strategies to thousands of people who suffer from ICI. Paul Donoghue and Mary Siegel teach their readers how to rethink how they themselves view their illness and how to communicate with loved ones and doctors in a way that meets their needs. The authors' understanding makes readers feel they have been heard for the first time. For this edition, the authors include a new introduction drawing on the experiences of the many people who have responded to the book and to their lectures and television appearances. They expand the definition of ICI to include other ailments such as depression, addiction, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. They bring the resource material, including Web sites, up to the present, and they offer fresh insights on four topics that often emerge: guilt, how ICI affects the family, meaningfulness, and defining acceptance.
Reconstructing Illness
Author: Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781557531261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSerious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times. As modern medicine has become more scientific and dispassionate, a new literary genre has emerged: pathography, the personal narrative concerning illness, treatment, and sometimes death. Hawkins's sensitive reading of numerous pathographies highlights the assumptions, attitudes, and myths that people bring to the medical encounter. One factor emerges again and again in these case studies: the tendency in contemporary medical practice to focus primarily not on the needs of the individual who is sick but on the condition that we call disease. Pathography allows the individual person a voice-one that asserts the importance of the experiential side of illness, and thus restores the feeling, thinking, experiencing human being to the center of the medical enterprise. Recommended for medical practitioners, the clergy, caregivers, students of popular culture, and the general reader, Reconstructing Illness demonstrates that only when we hear both the doctor's and the patient's voice will we have a medicine that is truly human.
Sauna Detoxification Therapy
Author: Marilyn G. McVicker
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2017-06-09
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1476621659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor sufferers of multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS), the lack of information on toxicity, coupled with skepticism, misdiagnosis, and very limited research in the medical community, has made treatment difficult. In the early 1980s, doctors began to experiment with thorough sweating as a way of purging the body of harmful chemicals. The use of a sauna was found surprisingly effective for treatment of a variety of illnesses. Information on sauna detoxification therapy is therefore presented here in full so that MCS sufferers can make informed choices. The causes and symptoms of MCS are discussed, along with current medical information. Real life experiences of those who have chosen sauna treatment are provided with a look at such options as health clubs, detox centers and home sauna units. The special value of this book is its detailed specifications and drawings for a home sauna made entirely of nontoxic building materials. Appendices include a directory of manufacturers and distributors, product information, helpful organizations, publications and other information.
