The Woman Who Walked into the Sea Epub

Author: Alice Wexler
Edition:
Publisher: Yale University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0300158610

The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease

When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made visible the historical experience of a family affected by the dreaded disorder of movement, mind, and mood her neighbors called St. Medical books The Woman Who Walked into the Sea. itus's dance. Doctors later spoke of Huntington’s chorea, and today it is known as Huntington's disease. This book is the first history of Huntington’s in America.

 

Starting with the life of Phebe Hedges, Alice Wexler uses Huntington’s as a lens to explore the changing meanings of heredity, disability, stigma, and medical knowledge among ordinary people as well as scientists and physicians Medical books .

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itus's dance. Doctors later spoke of Huntington’s chorea, and today it is known as Huntington's disease. This book is the first history of Huntington’s in America.

 

Starting with the life of Phebe Hedges, Alice Wexler uses Huntington’s as a lens to explore the changing meanings of heredity, disability, stigma, and medical knowledge among ordinary people as well as scientists and physicians. She addresses these themes through three overlapping stories: the lives of a nineteenth-century family once said to “belong to the disease”; the emergence of Huntington’s chorea as a clinical entity; and the early-twentieth-century transformation of this disorder into a cautionary eugenics tale. In our own era of expanding genetic technologies, this history offers insights into the social contexts of medical and scientific knowledge, as well as the legacy of eugenics in shaping both the knowledge and the lived experience of this disease.

 

Officer, Nurse, Woman Epub

Author: Kara Dixon Vuic
Edition: 1
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1421404443

Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War (War/Society/Culture)

"‘I never got a chance to be a girl,’ Kate O’Hare Palmer lamented, thirty-four years after her tour as an army nurse in Vietnam. Medical books Officer, Nurse, Woman. Although proud of having served, she felt that the war she never understood had robbed her of her innocence and forced her to grow up too quickly. As depicted in a photograph taken late in her tour, long hours in the operating room exhausted her both physically and mentally. Her tired eyes and gaunt face reflected th e weariness she felt after treating countless patients, some dying, some maimed, all, like her, forever changed. Still, she learned to work harder and faster than she thought she could, to trust her nursing skills, and to live independently Medical books Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War. Categories: Military nursing, Women and war, Nursing->United States->History. Contributors: Kara Dixon Vuic - Author. Format: Paperback

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Categories: Military nursing, Women and war, Nursing->United States->History. Contributors: Kara Dixon Vuic - Author. Format: Paperback

Categories: Military nursing, Women and war, Nursing->United States->History. Contributors: Kara Dixon Vuic - Author. Format: Paperback

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Although proud of having served, she felt that the war she never understood had robbed her of her innocence and forced her to grow up too quickly. As depicted in a photograph taken late in her tour, long hours in the operating room exhausted her both physically and mentally. Her tired eyes and gaunt face reflected th e weariness she felt after treating countless patients, some dying, some maimed, all, like her, forever changed. Still, she learned to work harder and faster than she thought she could, to trust her nursing skills, and to live independently. She developed a way to balance the dangers and benefits of being a woman in the army and in the war. Only fourteen months long, her tour in Vietnam profoundly affected her life and her beliefs."

Such vivid personal accounts abound in historian Kara Dixon Vuic’s compelling look at the experiences of army nurses in the Vietnam War. Drawing on more than 100 interviews, Vuic allows the nurses to tell their own captivating stories, from their reasons for joining the military to the physical and emotional demands of a horrific war and postwar debates about how to commemorate their service.

Vuic also explores the gender issues that arose when a male-dominated army actively recruited and employed the services of 5,000 nurses in the midst of a growing feminist movement and a changing nursing profession. Women drawn to the army’s patriotic promise faced disturbing realities in the virtually all-male hospitals of South Vietnam. Men who joined the nurse corps ran headlong into the army's belief that women should nurse and men should fight.

Officer, Nurse, Woman brings to light the nearly forgotten contributions of brave nurses who risked their lives to bring medical care to soldiers during a terrible—and divisive—war.

The Woman in the Surgeon's Body

Author: Joan Cassell
Edition:
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0674004078

The Woman in the Surgeon's Body

Surgery is the most martial and masculine of medical specialties. Medical books The Woman in the Surgeon's Body. The combat with death is carried out in the operating room, where the intrepid surgeon challenges the forces of destruction and disease. What, then, if the surgeon is a woman? Anthropologist Joan Cassell enters this closely guarded arena to explore the work and lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man's world.

Cassell observed thirty-three surgeons in five North American cities over the course of three years. We follow these women through their grueling days: racing through corridors to make rounds, perform operations, hold office hours, and teach residents Medical books The Woman in the Surgeon's Body. Anthropologist Joan Cassell enters the closely guarded arena of surgery to explore the work and lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man's world. A unique portrait of the day-to-day reality of thirty-three surgeons in five North American cities that Joan Cassell observed over three years, The Women in the Surgeon's Body is an insightful account of how being female influences the way the surgeon is perceived by colleagues, nurses, patients, and superiors -- and by herself.

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Anthropologist Joan Cassell enters the closely guarded arena of surgery to explore the work and lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man's world. A unique portrait of the day-to-day reality of thirty-three surgeons in five North American cities that Joan Cassell observed over three years, The Women in the Surgeon's Body is an insightful account of how being female influences the way the surgeon is perceived by colleagues, nurses, patients, and superiors -- and by herself.

Anthropologist Joan Cassell enters the closely guarded arena of surgery to explore the work and lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man's world. A unique portrait of the day-to-day reality of thirty-three surgeons in five North American cities that Cassell observed over three years, The Woman in the Surgeon's Body is an insightful account of how being female influences the way the surgeon is perceived by colleagues, nurses, patients, and superiors -- and by herself. Author: Cassell, Joan ISBN-10: 0674004078

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The combat with death is carried out in the operating room, where the intrepid surgeon challenges the forces of destruction and disease. What, then, if the surgeon is a woman? Anthropologist Joan Cassell enters this closely guarded arena to explore the work and lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man's world.

Cassell observed thirty-three surgeons in five North American cities over the course of three years. We follow these women through their grueling days: racing through corridors to make rounds, perform operations, hold office hours, and teach residents. We hear them, in their own words, discuss their training and their relations with patients, nurses, colleagues, husbands, and children.

Do these women differ from their male colleagues? And if so, do such differences affect patient care? The answers Cassell uncovers are as complex and fascinating as the issues she considers. A unique portrait of the day-to-day reality of these remarkable women, The Woman in the Surgeon's Body is an insightful account of how being female influences the way the surgeon is perceived by colleagues, nurses, patients, and superiors--and by herself.