The Boy in the Bubble
Author: Ian Strachan
Publisher:
Published: 1994-01
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780749716851
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Bubble
Author: Stewart Foster
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-05-02
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1481487426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 2016 in Great Britain as The bubble boy.
The Boy in the Bubble
Author: Zetta Elliott
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-05-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781497444782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA mysterious boy from another planet chooses an unusual girl as his guide on Earth. Both children lead solitary lives: the girl lives under a rock and lives on a diet of dreams; the boy, encased in a bubble, is unable to touch--or be touched by-- anything around him. As their friendship develops, however, the mysterious boy and the unusual girl begin to recognize the limits of their sheltered lives. The two children quarrel, but ultimately they find a way to shatter the bubble that separates them from one another and the world.
Bursting the Bubble
Author: Mary Ada Murphy
Publisher:
Published: 2019-02-22
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780578717227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe was known around the world as the "Bubble Boy". Now told for the first time by the person who was his caretaker and confidant, Bursting the Bubble is the heart-rending story of the life and death of David Vetter. Due to the scientific zeal of doctors and religious authorities, and the compliance of his trusting family, he lived his life in a sterile chamber bereft of human touch from birth until a few days before his death at age 12 and a half. Mary Ada Murphy, Ph.D., was a child psychologist on staff at St. Luke's-Texas Children's Hospital throughout David Vetter's life and became his closest friend and confidant. She was with him when he died. She received the Hadassah Myrtle Wreath Award in 1985 in recognition of her outstanding achievement in the psychological support of David Vetter and his family. Raymond J. Lawrence, whom Murphy entrusted with the Bursting the Bubble manuscript and writes an introduction to it, was the hospital chaplain in place during David's early years, and who convened the only formal ethics consultation on the Vetter case.
The Transparency of Evil
Author: Jean Baudrillard
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780860915881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text contemplates Western culture "after the orgy" - the revolutions of the 1960s. The author argues that the sexual revolution has led not to sexual liberation but to a reign of transvestism, to a confusion of the categories of man and woman, and a "transaesthetic realm of indifference".
Absolute Individual. Life In a Bubble
Author: Season BubbleGirl
Publisher: Fultus Corporation
Published: 2005-09
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1596820403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe official autobiography of Season BubbleGirl, the writer who hasn't left her home since 1997. A chemical accident left her with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), changing her life forever. Romance, challenges, medical battles, near-death experiences, achievements, and relationships: she explains in detail with nothing hidden. Learn how she turned a debilitating experience into a daily journey of hope. Find how she lives with MCS comfortably, while still achieving her goals. Read about the soul behind her harsh truth.
Chronic Youth
Author: Julie Passanante Elman
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2014-10-20
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1479841420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe teenager has often appeared in culture as an anxious figure, the repository for American dreams and worst nightmares, at once on the brink of success and imminent failure. Spotlighting the “troubled teen” as a site of pop cultural, medical, and governmental intervention, Chronic Youth traces the teenager as a figure through which broad threats to the normative order have been negotiated and contained. Examining television, popular novels, science journalism, new media, and public policy, Julie Passanante Elman shows how the teenager became a cultural touchstone for shifting notions of able-bodiedness, heteronormativity, and neoliberalism in the late twentieth century. By the late 1970s, media industries as well as policymakers began developing new problem-driven ‘edutainment’ prominently featuring narratives of disability—from the immunocompromised The Boy in the Plastic Bubble to ABC’s After School Specials and teen sick-lit. Although this conjoining of disability and adolescence began as a storytelling convention, disability became much more than a metaphor as the process of medicalizing adolescence intensified by the 1990s, with parenting books containing neuro-scientific warnings about the incomplete and volatile “teen brain.” Undertaking a cultural history of youth that combines disability, queer, feminist, and comparative media studies, Elman offers a provocative new account of how American cultural producers, policymakers, and medical professionals have mobilized discourses of disability to cast adolescence as a treatable “condition.” By tracing the teen’s uneven passage from postwar rebel to 21st century patient, Chronic Youth shows how teenagers became a lynchpin for a culture of perpetual rehabilitation and neoliberal governmentality.
At the Edge of Mysteries
Author: Shantha Perera
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Published: 2024-07-16
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 8727171868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE JOURNEY OF THE PIONEERS OF IMMUNOLOGY FROM SMALLPOX TO COVID-19 In December 2019 a new virus emerged, one that caused a global pandemic. Millions were infected. In the recesses of their fragile bodies a battle raged: between the immune system and the virus. But what is the immune system? What are its components? How do they work? One way to understand this system, arguably the most complicated in human physiology, is by walking in the footsteps of history, one observation and experiment at a time – beginning with the first written record of the concept of immunity in 430 BCE and travelling through the ensuing centuries, which gave the world vaccines, organ transplantation, novel therapies for cancer and now the understanding and tools to tackle the pandemic virus. An entertaining and accessible work of popular science, At the Edge of Mysteries introduces the reader to a compelling cast of characters, from Edward Jenner and Louis Pasteur to the Nobel laureates of the modern day. This book glimpses into their lives and times – seeking clues to their genius and celebrating their yearning for discovery – and asks the question of what can be learned from the past in the age of global pandemics. 'A unique historical perspective on how the field of immunology developed, told in short stories that will both educate and entertain and which can be read and understood by all. A captivating read' Paul Murray, Professor of Molecular Pathology, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham 'This book should be in every university library' Neville Punchard, Professor Emeritus in Molecular Biosciences, University of East London 'I found this book easy to read and it’s a great foundation for immunology/medical students' Professor Lucy Fairclough, PhD, AFHEA, Chair in Immunology, University of Nottingham Shantha Perera is a Senior Lecturer in Immunology at the School of Medicine, University of Wolverhampton, U.K. He has taught immunology to undergraduate and postgraduate students for over 25 years and is the principal author of Integrated Medical Sciences: The Essentials. John Wiley 2007.
The Art and Science of Interface and Interaction Design (Vol. 1)
Author: Christa Sommerer
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-09-08
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 3540798706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArtists and creators in interactive art and interaction design have long been conducting research on human-machine interaction. Through artistic, conceptual, social and critical projects, they have shown how interactive digital processes are essential elements for their artistic creations. Resulting prototypes have often reached beyond the art arena into areas such as mobile computing, intelligent ambiences, intelligent architecture, fashionable technologies, ubiquitous computing and pervasive gaming. Many of the early artist-developed interactive technologies have influenced new design practices, products and services of today's media society. This book brings together key theoreticians and practitioners of this field. It shows how historically relevant the issues of interaction and interface design are, as they can be analyzed not only from an engineering point of view but from a social, artistic and conceptual, and even commercial angle as well.
Bubble's World
Author: Jules
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2007-12
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 1434345106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRiding in a Magic Bubble allows children to explore the world - geographically, culturally, and emotionally - inspiring children to see life through loving eyes, with more compassion, caring, and tolerance. The adventures with Bubble are exciting, yet on a soul level, thought-provoking. The stories capture the imagination of all children, because Bubble is their own imagination. When imagination is stimulated, children are naturally more creative, will believe in their dreams, and create their own realities. Bubble is the children's imagination personified. She is the nurturing, loving side within all of us. She is magic, and sees the wonder in all things. Bubble inspires children to dream of the impossible, change their perceptions, and bring their imaginations to life. Bubble opens the doors to a more compassionate and loving world.
