Body & Soul : Narratives of Healing from Ars Medica / Allison Crawford, Rex Kay, Allan D. Peterkin, Robin Roger, Ronald Ruskin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crawford, Allison, Editor.

Kay, Rex, Editor.

Orkin, Aaron.

Peterkin, Allan D., Editor.

Roger, Robin, Editor.

Ruskin, Ronald, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Literary collections.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Body & Soul features inspiring and award-winning fiction, essays, memoirs, poetry, photography, and visual art on the universal themes of wellness, treatment, and healing.

Contents:

Part 1: Patients

Introduction to Part 1

1 As One Might Expect / William Bradley

2 Hands: A Suite of Stories / Linda E. Clarke

3 Prenatal Exam / Sarah Cross

4 Sunday Nights at the Shangri-La / Cindy Dale

5 A Picture Made of Sound / Anne Elliott

6 Centre of Dread / Faye George

7 At Thirteen, Asthmatic/Medicine Pudding/First Day Home from the Hospital / John Grey

8 Daughter Cells / Jessica Handler

9 BSE / Alison Hauch

10 Things Taken / Isabel Hoskins

11 Pain Scale / Paul Hostovsky

12 Seeing the Heart / Catherine Jagoe

13 Matter and Energy / Lorie Kolak

14 My Little Heart Attack / Tom Lombardo

15 The Eighth Day / Michael C. McConnell

16 Life Study / Helen McLean

17 Second Sight / Helen McLean

18 Lethargy, Resulting from the Sudden Extinction of Light/Swallows / Mary O'Donoghue

19 On the Loss and Reconstruction of a Self / Menorah Lafayette-Lebovics Rotenberg

20 The Cure of Metaphor / Kenneth Sherman

21 Kasabach-Merrit Syndrome / Heather Spears

22 Inadequacy of Impotence / George J. Stevenson

23 Diabetes: My Body Says "Fall" / Heather L. Stuckey

24 Care for the Patient / Yvonne Trainer

25 I, Michael Christopher Willard

Part 2: Family and Friends

Introduction to Part 2

26 Drawing Insulin / Anonymous

27 Days and Nights in the NICU / Christine Benvenuto

28 Eden and I Are Playing Go Fish / Susie Berg

29 Palliation / Pat Cason

30 All Out of Funny in Crystal Lake, California / Stephan Clark

31 911 / Diane Foley

32 Stoma / Kathy Giorgio

33 Unpacking My Daughter's Library / Joan Givner

34 My Father's Polio / Patricia F. Goldblatt

35 Lie Down 176 / Katherine Govier

36 Friendship Bracelets / Jon Hunter

37 Hope from a Distance / Nigel Leaney

38 Something Happened / Jane Martin

39 The Right Thing to Say / Kathy Page

40 Second Round / Nancy Richler

41 On Different Hospital Floors / Nicholas Samaras

42 The Alzheimer's Man / Alan Steinberg

43 The Second Parlour / Anne Marie Todkill

44 The Wong-Baker Scale / Gina P. Vozenilek

45 Denial / Gina Wilch and Ruby Roy

Part 3: Practitioners

Introduction to Part 3

46 Accident Room / Jay Baruch

47 Tale of a T-Shirt / Susan Croft

48 The Texture of a Word / Ian G. Dorward

49 Table of Unidentified Contents / Doug Guildford

50 Figuring the Ground / Pam Hall

51 Refugees in Southeast Asia / J. David Holbrook

52 Mid-winter Night/Summer Party / Jill Leahman

53 On Pathography / Robert Maunder

54 Elysium / Pamela Stewart

55 First Day on the Wards / Eileen Valinoti

56 On Call / Paul Whang

57 Making Images / Arthur Robinson Williams.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-4426-9607-9

1-4426-6181-X

OCLC:

785803050