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A perfect turmoil
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERThe rise, fall, and redemption of the doctor behind America’s first public school for mentally disabled peopleFrom the moment he became superintendent of the nation’s oldest public school for intellectually and developmentally disabled children in 1887 unt...
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All the wild hungers
“A lush gem of a book, both heartbreaking and heart-making.”—AMY THIELEN
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Always a sister
Always a Sister is the inspiring story of Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940), a pioneer in the early public health movement. In 1893 Wald founded the Visiting Nurse Service and the Henry Street Settlement in New York City. She continued actively to direct the settlement throughout a long career that enc...
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An extra pair of hands
Caring is an issue that affects us all - as bestselling novelist Kate Mosse knows all too well. Kate has cared in turn for her father and mother, and for Granny Rosie, her 90-year-old mother-in-law. Along the way she has experienced the joys, challenges and frustrations shared by an invisible ar...
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Colored insane
Martha Louis explores Black experiences and views of mental disability in the nineteenth century, shedding light on the lives and struggles of the “colored insane.”
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Head above water
This lyrical hybrid memoir revisits a lifetime's worth of personal journals to slowly piece together a narrative of chronic illness—a moving account of survival, memory, loss, and hope.Shahd Alshammari is just eighteen when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and told by her neurologist tha...
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Hong kong notable doctors
This book tells the history of The development of Western medicine in Hong Kong.
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How to be depressed
An unusual, searching, and poignant memoir of one man's quest to make sense of depressionGeorge Scialabba is a prolific critic and essayist known for his incisive, wide-ranging commentary on literature, philosophy, religion, and politics. He is also, like millions of others, a lifelong sufferer f...
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Journal of a black queer nurse
In this searing, honest memoir, a Black queer emergency-room nurse works the front lines of care during COVID-19.Britney Daniels is a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian from a working-class background. For the last five years, she has been working as an emergency-room nurse. She began ...
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Men writing eating disorders
Eating disorders do not only affect women and girls; men and boys get them too but remain mostly invisible. This book gives insight into this neglected problem through a comparative and transnational analysis of autobiographical accounts written by men with experience of living with eating disord...
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Perfectly human
She knew they would only have a few fleeting months together, but in that time Sarah’s unborn daughter would transform her understanding of beauty, worth, and the gift of life.Happily married and teaching history at the University of Oxford, Sarah Williams had credentials, success, and knowledge....
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Radiation diaries
Exquisitely written diary of radiation treatment for pelvic cancers that delves into literary consciousness, feminism, memory and an unquiet past.
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Robert n. butler, md
Robert Neil Butler was a scholar, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author who revolutionized the way the world thinks about aging and the elderly. One of the first psychiatrists to engage with older men and women outside of institutional settings, Butler coined the term “ageism” to draw a...
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Stardust to stardust: reflections on living and dying
One of the 21st century's most brilliant sociologists confronts his own mortality.
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Stroke book
An archive of personal trauma that addresses how a culture still toxic to queer people can reshape a bodyIn the summer of 2019, Jonathan Alexander had a minor stroke, what his doctors called an “eye stroke.” A small bit of cholesterol came loose from a vein in his neck and instead of shooting int...
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The art of binding people
From one of Italy’s most brilliant psychiatrists, a moving and transformative journey into the most mysterious, heartbreaking, and awe-inspiring corners of the human mindWe speak of doctors most often as heroes, martyrs, or victims. Drawing from forty years of experience working in an emergency p...
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The caring heirs of doctor samuel bard
Peter Wortsman offers a selection of profiles of Columbia-educated doctors who have made a fundamental difference in the lives of others. The physicians profiled in this book represent the complete spectrum of MDs.
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The couch, the clinic, and the scanner
The Couch, the Clinic, and the Scanner is an insightful first-person account of psychiatry’s evolution. In vivid stories and essays, David Hellerstein explores the lived experience of psychiatric work and the daunting challenges of healing the mind amid ever-changing theoretical models.
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The pain project
“The Pain Project is ironically full of pleasure: on every page is another generous, original insight into this most intimate human subject.”—NAOMI KLEIN, author of Doppelganger“The Pain Project is a beautiful, humane, thoughtful inquiry into the challenge of living with chronic pain and how Stan...
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The trials of madame restell
The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century—and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rights For forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, “Madame Restell,” the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in Americ...
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Tracking a shadow
This poignant memoir from the author of Alma Rose and Nowle’s Passing follow’s Edith Forbes’s journey into the uncharted territory of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis.
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Under that calamity
After experiencing auditory hallucinations, John Perceval was institutionalized against his will for three years. His memoir A Narrative of the Treatment Experienced by a Gentleman, During a State of Mental Derangement, was first published in 1838 in London with the aim of exposing the inhumane ...
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Your hearts, your scars
Engaging, funny, and unflinching essays about coming of age as a transplant patient and living each day as a giftAdina Talve-Goodman was born with a congenital heart condition and survived multiple operations over the course of her childhood, including a heart transplant at age nineteen. In these...
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