People diagnosed with dementia are still living and deserve the support needed to help them live as well as possible through the trauma and losses they face.
I WAS NOT A GOOD MEDICAL STUDENTBLUNT BUT GOODTHE LIFE AND DECLINE OF THE FAMILY DOCTORThis trilogy records the life, starting as a young man, who decided, after the death of his mother, to make a difference by becoming a Doctor.
In Nurses behind Bars, author Beth Grayson unveils the fascinating and unimaginable events, behaviors, and relationships occurring in a maximum security, all-female prison.
When his father and grandfather introduced him to trout fishing at the Flag River in the wilds of northern Wisconsin, eight-year-old Tony was-in a word-hooked.
The book is about Neuroscience as acquired and practiced by myself across 3 continents: from Cairo, issues like colonial psychiatry, pellagra madness, population explosion and contraception are highlighted.
When author Ruth James Krise was accepted into the nursing class at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital in Kingston, Pennsylvania, in September of 1953, she was the oldest of the lot.
The value of this Memoir lies in the objective presentation of several key historical events in specific countries where the author lived and worked, ranging from Canada through Africa and Europe to the Caribbean.
This is the life story of a family branch rooted in America in 1636 represented by a man who graduated from Colgate University, New York Medical College during World War II and Harvard with a post graduate degree who learned the practice of medicine in a small coal mining town with a young family doing medical procedures that would be impossible today.
A breast cancer diagnosis at forty-nine forces Christine Shields Corrigan, a wife, mom, and meticulous list-maker, to confront her deepest fears of illness, death, and loss of control as she struggles to face cancer again.
A physician, a Northerner, a teacher, a school administrator, a suffragist, and an abolitionist, Esther Hill Hawks was the antithesis of Southern womanhood.
From 2013 to 2017, Linda Bostrom Knausgard was periodically confined to a psychiatric ward and subjected to electroconvulsive therapy, resulting in the loss of memories.
Erik Olin Wright, one of the most important sociologists of his time, takes us along on his intimate and brave journey toward death, and asks the big questions about human mortality.
This book contains prayers and thoughts that I've had throughout my life and which I think address most of the situations that we go through during our everyday lives.
As a member of America's Greatest Generation, Bob Morton saw the world at its worst before he began his education at the University of Oklahoma to fulfill his dream of becoming a geologist.