Recent Acquisitions: Health Sciences

Contents: 1. Health humanities -- 2. Anthropology and the study of culture -- 3. Applied literature -- 4. Narrative and applied linguistics -- 5. Performing arts and the aesthetics of health -- 6. Visual art and transformation -- 7. Practice based evidence: delivering humanities into healthcare -- 8. Creative practice as mutual recovery.

"This textbook brings the humanities to students in order to evoke the humanity of students. It helps to form individuals who take charge of their own minds, who are free from narrow and unreflective forms of thought, and who act compassionately in their public and professional worlds."

The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine articulates the ideas, methods, and practices of narrative medicine. Written by the originators of the field, this book provides the authoritative starting place for any clinicians or scholars committed to learning of and eventually teaching or practicing narrative medicine.

This book is designed to bring into perspective the massive knowledge acquired by man to retain his health by using the plants around him. Man's survival has been dependent on his innate curiosity, his desire to examine by trial and error all aspects of his environment, and to conclude which materials are remedial, which ones are harmful, and which give him the greatest nourishment.

Health politics and political action -- Health policy and corporate influences -- Healthcare reform today and for the future -- Health status of the population and vulnerable groups -- Access to care -- Aging and long-term care -- Organizations -- Labor issues -- Quality of care -- Financing health care -- Public financing -- Private insurance and managed care -- International health systems.

"DNA technology is evolving rapidly, with new methods and a fast-growing vocabulary. This unique dictionary offers current, detailed and accessible information on DNA technology to lecturers, researchers and students throughout the biomedical and related sciences."--Back cover.