Patient poets : illness from inside out / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Pedagogy in medical humanities | Perspectives in medical humanitiesPublisher: San Francisco, CA : University of California Medical Humanities Press, ©2012Description: 1 Online-Ressource (157 pages)Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: Patient poets. Druck-Ausgabe San Francisco, CA : University of California Medical Humanities Press, ©2012DDC classification:
  • 610.696 23
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Contents:
Getting the news from poems -- Insider diagnosis -- Naming the elephant -- Outrageous intimacies -- The fear factor -- A solitary journey -- In it together -- Keeping on keeping on -- Allowing lament -- At the threshold -- Works cited -- Permissions.
Summary: "'Patient poets: Illness from inside out' invites readers to consider what caregivers and medical professionals may learn from poetry by patients. It offers reflections on poetry as a particularly apt vehicle for articulating the often isolating experiences of pain, fatigue, changed life rhythms, altered self-understanding, embarrassment, resistance, and acceptance. The chapters discuss poems that represent a particular dimension of the experience of illness or disability -- foreboding, isolation, fear, shame, wry humor, acceptance, deepening self-knowledge." -- Back coverPPN: PPN: 1916242324Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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