"Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice. In "Health Humanities Reader," editors The ..."
"Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice. In "Health Humanities Reader," editors The ..."
"In Health Humanities Reader, editors Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman have assembled fifty-four leading scholars, educators, artists, and clinicians to survey the rich body of work that has already emerged from the ..."
Human Voices Wake Us(1st Edition) (Literature and Medicine) by JeraldWinakur, Alan Shapiro Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2017 by The Kent State University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60635-334-9, ISBN: 1-60635-334-9
"Patients and physicians are adrift in this era of rapidly changing medical paradigms. Perhaps it has always been so, though it seems that lately the dissatisfaction on both sides has intensified.Doctors today are struggling: debt, divorce, substance abuse, burnout, suicide. They succeed or fail on professional treadmills; patient encounters measured out with coffee spoons. The doctor patient relationship is crumbling. Bureaucratic and c ..."
Memory Lessons A Doctor's Story by JeraldWinakur 208 Pages, Published 2014 by Hyperion Books ISBN-13: 978-0-316-40776-2, ISBN: 0-316-40776-3
"A respected geriatrician examines the social and medical challenges of aging as experienced firsthand through the decline of his elderly father, a process throughout which the author struggled with feelings of helplessness in spite of his ..."
Memory Lessons A Doctor's Story by JeraldWinakur Digital, 304 Pages, Published 2009 by Hyperion Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4013-9556-8, ISBN: 1-4013-9556-2
"My experience as a contributing editor to this periodical that gave voice to so
many medical professionals was a formative one. I am indebted to Ellen Ficklen
and Fitzhugh Mullan of Health Affairs for selecting my essay, “What Are We Going
to ..."
Memory Lessons A Doctor's Story by JeraldWinakur Digital, 304 Pages, Published 2008 by Hyperion Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4013-9330-4, ISBN: 1-4013-9330-6
Memory Lessons A Doctor's Story by JeraldWinakur Digital, 304 Pages, Published 2008 by Hyperion Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4013-9331-1, ISBN: 1-4013-9331-4
Memory Lessons(1st Edition) A Doctor's Story by JeraldWinakur Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2008 by Hyperion ISBN-13: 978-1-4013-0302-0, ISBN: 1-4013-0302-1
""Jerald Winakur poignantly brings together his personal and professional lives in this healing work, a deeply humane and utterly forthright book of memories, lessons, and revelations."--Edward Hirsch, author of Special Orders: Poems "Memory Lessons is a beautifully written and moving book that is both personal and universal." --Christine K. Cassel, M.D., president of the American Board of Internal Medicine "A beautifully written accoun ..."
Memory Lessons A Doctor's Story by JeraldWinakur Digital, 304 Pages, Published 2008 by Hyperion Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4013-9333-5, ISBN: 1-4013-9333-0
Memory Lessons A Doctor's Story by JeraldWinakur Digital, 304 Pages, Published 2008 by Hyperion Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4013-9334-2, ISBN: 1-4013-9334-9
Memory Lessons A Doctor's Story by JeraldWinakur Digital, 304 Pages, Published 2008 by Hyperion Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4013-9332-8, ISBN: 1-4013-9332-2
Dad taught me life lessons (Chinese Edition) by JeraldWinakur Paperback, 370 Pages, Published 2000 by Locus Publishing Co.. Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-986-213-182-4, ISBN: 986-213-182-9