Author: Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557531261
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times. As modern medicine has become more scientific and dispassionate, a new literary genre has emerged: pathography, the personal narrative concerning illness, treatment, and sometimes death. Hawkins's sensitive reading of numerous pathographies highlights the assumptions, attitudes, and myths that people bring to the medical encounter. One factor emerges again and again in these case studies: the tendency in contemporary medical practice to focus primarily not on the needs of the individual who is sick but on the condition that we call disease. Pathography allows the individual person a voice-one that asserts the importance of the experiential side of illness, and thus restores the feeling, thinking, experiencing human being to the center of the medical enterprise. Recommended for medical practitioners, the clergy, caregivers, students of popular culture, and the general reader, Reconstructing Illness demonstrates that only when we hear both the doctor's and the patient's voice will we have a medicine that is truly human.
Venom in Her Veins
Author: Tim Pratt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786959846
Category : Forgotten realms (Imaginary place)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Believing herself to be human and learning how to survive in the jungle, a yuan-ti child--a pureblood who looks human except for some snakelike characteristics--discovers that she was adopted and runs away from home to seek out her true origins.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786959846
Category : Forgotten realms (Imaginary place)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Believing herself to be human and learning how to survive in the jungle, a yuan-ti child--a pureblood who looks human except for some snakelike characteristics--discovers that she was adopted and runs away from home to seek out her true origins.
Venom in the Veins
Author: Jennifer Estep
Publisher: Jennifer Estep
ISBN: 0986188557
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Jennifer Estep
ISBN: 0986188557
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Venom in My Veins
Author: Terry L. Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933290690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Face-to-face with death, Terry Jones had only one way to go-down on his knees. Slip behind the curtain of the unknown, into the deep things of God, and see Him as He truly is-good all the time. Travel this long and continuing journey with Terry as he takes you where hope lives. If you have ever wanted to know the truth about healing, this book is a must read. There are no false promises to be found, only God's truth woven between these pages. Open Terry's life and learn what it means not only to survive, but to live a life of excellence.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933290690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Face-to-face with death, Terry Jones had only one way to go-down on his knees. Slip behind the curtain of the unknown, into the deep things of God, and see Him as He truly is-good all the time. Travel this long and continuing journey with Terry as he takes you where hope lives. If you have ever wanted to know the truth about healing, this book is a must read. There are no false promises to be found, only God's truth woven between these pages. Open Terry's life and learn what it means not only to survive, but to live a life of excellence.
Tryst Six Venom
Author: Penelope Douglas
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593641981
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Away games, back seats, and the locker room after hours...New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas is back with this spicy new adult romance, now with bonus material. Marymount girls are good girls. Even if they weren't, no one would know, because girls like Clay Collins keep their mouths shut. Not that Clay has anything to share, anyway. Always in control, she owns the hallways, walking tall on Monday and then dropping to her knees like the good Catholic girl she is on Sunday. What she wants she has to hide. Liv Jaeger crosses the tracks every day for one reason: to graduate from high school and get into the Ivy League. But Clay—with her beautiful skin, clean shoes, and rich parents—torments her daily and thinks Liv won't fight back. At least not until Liv gets Clay alone and finds out she's hiding so much more than just what's underneath those pretty clothes. Liv told Clay to stay on her side of town. But one night, Clay doesn't listen. And once Liv is done with her, she'll never be a good girl again.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593641981
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Away games, back seats, and the locker room after hours...New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas is back with this spicy new adult romance, now with bonus material. Marymount girls are good girls. Even if they weren't, no one would know, because girls like Clay Collins keep their mouths shut. Not that Clay has anything to share, anyway. Always in control, she owns the hallways, walking tall on Monday and then dropping to her knees like the good Catholic girl she is on Sunday. What she wants she has to hide. Liv Jaeger crosses the tracks every day for one reason: to graduate from high school and get into the Ivy League. But Clay—with her beautiful skin, clean shoes, and rich parents—torments her daily and thinks Liv won't fight back. At least not until Liv gets Clay alone and finds out she's hiding so much more than just what's underneath those pretty clothes. Liv told Clay to stay on her side of town. But one night, Clay doesn't listen. And once Liv is done with her, she'll never be a good girl again.
Reconstructing Illness
Author: Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557531261
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times. As modern medicine has become more scientific and dispassionate, a new literary genre has emerged: pathography, the personal narrative concerning illness, treatment, and sometimes death. Hawkins's sensitive reading of numerous pathographies highlights the assumptions, attitudes, and myths that people bring to the medical encounter. One factor emerges again and again in these case studies: the tendency in contemporary medical practice to focus primarily not on the needs of the individual who is sick but on the condition that we call disease. Pathography allows the individual person a voice-one that asserts the importance of the experiential side of illness, and thus restores the feeling, thinking, experiencing human being to the center of the medical enterprise. Recommended for medical practitioners, the clergy, caregivers, students of popular culture, and the general reader, Reconstructing Illness demonstrates that only when we hear both the doctor's and the patient's voice will we have a medicine that is truly human.
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557531261
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times. As modern medicine has become more scientific and dispassionate, a new literary genre has emerged: pathography, the personal narrative concerning illness, treatment, and sometimes death. Hawkins's sensitive reading of numerous pathographies highlights the assumptions, attitudes, and myths that people bring to the medical encounter. One factor emerges again and again in these case studies: the tendency in contemporary medical practice to focus primarily not on the needs of the individual who is sick but on the condition that we call disease. Pathography allows the individual person a voice-one that asserts the importance of the experiential side of illness, and thus restores the feeling, thinking, experiencing human being to the center of the medical enterprise. Recommended for medical practitioners, the clergy, caregivers, students of popular culture, and the general reader, Reconstructing Illness demonstrates that only when we hear both the doctor's and the patient's voice will we have a medicine that is truly human.
Passion & Venom
Author: Shanora Williams
Publisher: Shanora Williams
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Imagine this: Your husband is murdered on your wedding day. Your gown is soiled in his blood. You are taken hostage… Treated like a caged animal. The man behind your husband’s murder is revealed. His name is Draco Molina. Draco has power. Respect. Wealth. He is a savage beast of a man - dominant in every way. Soon after, he makes you an offer that you can’t refuse. All you have do is submit to him, and in return you won’t be punished. He will reward you handsomely. But if you disobey, you must be prepared to face the consequences. What do you do when the most wanted man in the world . . . wants you?
Publisher: Shanora Williams
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Imagine this: Your husband is murdered on your wedding day. Your gown is soiled in his blood. You are taken hostage… Treated like a caged animal. The man behind your husband’s murder is revealed. His name is Draco Molina. Draco has power. Respect. Wealth. He is a savage beast of a man - dominant in every way. Soon after, he makes you an offer that you can’t refuse. All you have do is submit to him, and in return you won’t be punished. He will reward you handsomely. But if you disobey, you must be prepared to face the consequences. What do you do when the most wanted man in the world . . . wants you?
Midnight
Author: Jeanna Armas
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493168541
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Two friends Ema and Joshua their lives change completely when Josh moves years pass and Ema copes she then fi nds out she and her parents have to move to a different state Colorado there she meets up again with Josh but little did she know that thats the place where her life would change she goes to college and thats where she meets the Ezniezs Alisha, Jessieh, Cassandrah, Maxxon and Robert. You see the thing is the ezniez along with Joshuas family hide a secret they are vampires and Josh is a jaguar you see both Robert and Josh love Ema and they wont give up till she chooses one.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493168541
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Two friends Ema and Joshua their lives change completely when Josh moves years pass and Ema copes she then fi nds out she and her parents have to move to a different state Colorado there she meets up again with Josh but little did she know that thats the place where her life would change she goes to college and thats where she meets the Ezniezs Alisha, Jessieh, Cassandrah, Maxxon and Robert. You see the thing is the ezniez along with Joshuas family hide a secret they are vampires and Josh is a jaguar you see both Robert and Josh love Ema and they wont give up till she chooses one.
Venomous
Author: Christopher Krovatin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416964932
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Locke Vinetti is a high school junior, disenchanted and more than a little hostile. In fact, for years he's had a lousy social life because of a problem he has with his anger--a force he calls "the venom." Ever since he was eight years old and bit off a piece of a classmate's nose, he's been something of a loner. But all that is about to change when he goes out with his one friend, Randall, to meet some of Randall's crew hanging out at Riverside Park. Because in addition to meeting his kindred spirit, Casey--who has his own problems with his own kind of venom--Locke meets the spikey blue fairy-haircut Goth girl of his dreams. And if their relationship is going to work, he knows he has to rid himself of the venom once and for all. Interspersed with comic book adventures of the fantasy anti-hero alter-ego Locke has invented for himself, VENOMOUS is a fast-paced, funny, and ferocious read about one teenage boy's struggle with his inner demons.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416964932
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Locke Vinetti is a high school junior, disenchanted and more than a little hostile. In fact, for years he's had a lousy social life because of a problem he has with his anger--a force he calls "the venom." Ever since he was eight years old and bit off a piece of a classmate's nose, he's been something of a loner. But all that is about to change when he goes out with his one friend, Randall, to meet some of Randall's crew hanging out at Riverside Park. Because in addition to meeting his kindred spirit, Casey--who has his own problems with his own kind of venom--Locke meets the spikey blue fairy-haircut Goth girl of his dreams. And if their relationship is going to work, he knows he has to rid himself of the venom once and for all. Interspersed with comic book adventures of the fantasy anti-hero alter-ego Locke has invented for himself, VENOMOUS is a fast-paced, funny, and ferocious read about one teenage boy's struggle with his inner demons.
Venom Doc
Author: Bryan Grieg Fry
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1628727063
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Steve Irwin meets David Attenborough in this jaw-dropping account of studying the world’s most venomous creatures. Venomologist Bryan Grieg Fry has one of the most dangerous jobs on earth: he works with its deadliest creatures. He’s been bitten by twenty-six venomous snakes, been stung by three stingrays, and survived a near-fatal scorpion sting while deep in the Amazon jungle. He’s received more than four hundred stitches and broken twenty-three bones, including breaking his back in three places, and had to learn how to walk again. But when you research only the venom you yourself have collected, the adventures—and danger—never stop. Imagine a three-week-long first date in Siberia catching venomous water shrews with the daughter of a Russian war hero; a wedding attended by Eastern European prime ministers and their machine-gun-wielding bodyguards and snakes; or leading a team to Antarctica that results in the discovery of four new species of venomous octopi. Bryan’s discoveries have radically reshaped views on venom evolution and contributed to the creation of venom-based life-saving medications. In pursuit of venom, he has traveled the world collecting samples from Indonesia to Mexico, Germany, and Brazil. He’s encountered venomous creatures of all kinds, including the Malaysian king cobra, the Komodo dragon, and the funnel-web spider. Bryan recounts his lifelong passion for studying the world’s most venomous creatures in this outlandish, captivating memoir, where he and danger are never far apart.
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1628727063
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Steve Irwin meets David Attenborough in this jaw-dropping account of studying the world’s most venomous creatures. Venomologist Bryan Grieg Fry has one of the most dangerous jobs on earth: he works with its deadliest creatures. He’s been bitten by twenty-six venomous snakes, been stung by three stingrays, and survived a near-fatal scorpion sting while deep in the Amazon jungle. He’s received more than four hundred stitches and broken twenty-three bones, including breaking his back in three places, and had to learn how to walk again. But when you research only the venom you yourself have collected, the adventures—and danger—never stop. Imagine a three-week-long first date in Siberia catching venomous water shrews with the daughter of a Russian war hero; a wedding attended by Eastern European prime ministers and their machine-gun-wielding bodyguards and snakes; or leading a team to Antarctica that results in the discovery of four new species of venomous octopi. Bryan’s discoveries have radically reshaped views on venom evolution and contributed to the creation of venom-based life-saving medications. In pursuit of venom, he has traveled the world collecting samples from Indonesia to Mexico, Germany, and Brazil. He’s encountered venomous creatures of all kinds, including the Malaysian king cobra, the Komodo dragon, and the funnel-web spider. Bryan recounts his lifelong passion for studying the world’s most venomous creatures in this outlandish, captivating memoir, where he and danger are never far apart.
The Doctor's Call
Author: K. A. Bennett
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491827777
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Keith Patterson works hard at a small Managing Company. He became ill working in the pouring rain making it hard for him and his co-workers to finish the job they were hired for. Keiths boss, Mark Barkelson also a part time lawyer for the town, cut the day short not being able to finished the job in the pouring rain. Keith began to have trouble sleeping and getting any rest he needs to get well from the nightmares that he has during his illness. Keiths wife, Kelly talked him into seeing Dr. Maxwell Shwartz, the new doctor in town for his illness and his insomnia. Keith began to have hallucinations from his illness, soon after seeing Dr. Shwartz. It caused him to be put in a home for the insane only to find out that Dr. Maxwell Shwartz wants to keep Keith out of the way just to get to his wife. Keith plans to escape and stop the doctor before it is too late for his wife, Kelly. Will Keith be able to safe his wife from Maxwell or will his wife have the same fate?
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491827777
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Keith Patterson works hard at a small Managing Company. He became ill working in the pouring rain making it hard for him and his co-workers to finish the job they were hired for. Keiths boss, Mark Barkelson also a part time lawyer for the town, cut the day short not being able to finished the job in the pouring rain. Keith began to have trouble sleeping and getting any rest he needs to get well from the nightmares that he has during his illness. Keiths wife, Kelly talked him into seeing Dr. Maxwell Shwartz, the new doctor in town for his illness and his insomnia. Keith began to have hallucinations from his illness, soon after seeing Dr. Shwartz. It caused him to be put in a home for the insane only to find out that Dr. Maxwell Shwartz wants to keep Keith out of the way just to get to his wife. Keith plans to escape and stop the doctor before it is too late for his wife, Kelly. Will Keith be able to safe his wife from Maxwell or will his wife have the same fate?