Rising from the flames : the experience of the severely burned / Albert Howard Carter III and Jane Arbuckle Petro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Albert Howard, 1943-

Contributor:

Petro, Jane A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burns and scalds--Psychological aspects.

Burns and scalds.

Burns and scalds--Social aspects.

Burns and scalds--Patients--Rehabilitation.

Physical Description:

x, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1998]

Summary:

Although medical advances have remarkably increased the survival rate of the severely burned, such patients still encounter physical and psychological pain and disability, disfigurement, and social rejection."Rising from the Flames" examines the experience of the severely burned as survivors confront it, not just as a medical event but as a human ordeal involving social, cultural, psychological, and medical trauma. It discusses the causes of burns, the physiology of injury and healing, the forms of isolation burn patients endure, and the cultural meaning attached to burns and burned persons.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-218) and index.

ISBN:

081223264X

0812215176

OCLC:

38067583