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  • Journeys of Life

    Engaging the Work of Thomas R. Cole

    Edited by Nathan Carlin, Kate de Medeiros ...
    Trained as a cultural historian, Thomas R. Cole is one of the most influential scholars of his generation, with his work moving beyond and impacting many other fields and disciplines. His work includes The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Cole also published No Color Is My Kind: The Life of Eldrewey Stearns and the Integration of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living in Limbo

    Life in the Midst of Uncertainty

    by Donald Capps, Nathan Carlin ...
    Limbo has traditionally been viewed as a place between heaven, on the one hand, and purgatory and hell, on the other, to which the patriarchs, who lived under the old law, and babies who died before being baptized into the Christian faith have been consigned. Like purgatory, it is a dark place but not deprived of grace. Now that the Roman Catholic Church has declared that limbo is not an official ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Religious Mourning

    Reversals and Restorations in Psychological Portraits of Religious Leaders

    by Nathan Carlin ...
    Religious Mourning is about a common experience among those who study religion: religious loss. When people of faith study religion critically, or when life experiences such as death and divorce trigger personal reflection on faith, religious intellectuals often become estranged from their own tradition. Sometimes this estrangement causes them to leave religion altogether. But for those who study ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gift of Sublimation

    A Psychoanalytic Study of Multiple Masculinities

    by Nathan Carlin, Donald Capps ...
    There is not, and never was, a monolithic masculinity; there are, and always have been, multiple masculinities. Today diversity with regard to gender and sexuality is beginning to be recognized and celebrated even while many religious denominations still resist these cultural changes. This book offers pastoral interpretations of these social shifts in light of psychological principles, applying ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Medicine, Meaning, and Identity

    Essays from Early-Career Physicians

    Edited by Keisha Ray, Nathan Carlin ...
    A critical care doctor becomes one of the first physicians in the United States to contract COVID-19. A pediatrician reflects on her father's passing during her final year of medical school. A Muslim surgeon contemplates whether residency has replaced his faith. An orthopedic surgeon wonders, after a decade of training, if he made the right choices after the death of his brother-in-law. An African ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Secularization of Medicine

    Ritual, Salvation, and Prophecy

    by Nathan Carlin ...
    Why do doctors take the Hippocratic Oath? Is this like reciting a religious creed? Is the White Coat Ceremony a kind of medical ordination? These medical rituals do seem to offer grounding for moral life in the profession. People from all over the globe make pilgrimages to places like the Mayo Clinic and the Texas Medical Center in search of salvation--not of their souls, but of their bodies. Are ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Contemporary Physician-Authors

    Exploring the Insights of Doctors Who Write

    Edited by Nathan Carlin ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
    This book examines the phenomenon of physician-authors. Focusing on the books that contemporary doctors write--the stories that they tell--with contributors critically engaging their work.A selection of original chapters from leading scholars in medical and health humanities analyze the literary output of doctors, including Oliver Sacks, Danielle Ofri, Atul Gawande, Louise Aronson, Siddhartha ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Pathographies of Mental Illness

    by Nathan Carlin ...
    Series series Elements in Bioethics and Neuroethics
    This Element is a survey of the field of pathographies of mental illness. It explores classic texts in the field as well as other selected contemporary memoirs. In doing so, the reader is introduced to psychiatric information about various mental illnesses through a narrative lens, emphasizing experience. Because clinical research is evidenced-based and aims to produce generalizable knowledge (i.e ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Teaching Health Humanities

    Edited by Olivia Banner, Nathan Carlin, Thomas R. Cole ...
    Teaching Health Humanities expands our understanding of the burgeoning field of health humanities and of what it aspires to be. The volume's contributors describe their different degree programs, the politics and perspectives that inform their teaching, and methods for incorporating newer digital and multimodal technologies into teaching practices. Each chapter lays out theories that guide ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Pastoral Aesthetics

    A Theological Perspective on Principlist Bioethics

    by Nathan Carlin ...
    It is often said that bioethics emerged from theology in the 1960s, and that since then it has grown into a secular enterprise, yielding to other disciplines and professions such as philosophy and law. During the 1970s and 1980s, a kind of secularism in biomedicine and related areas was encouraged by the need for a neutral language that could provide common ground for guiding clinical practice and ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

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    A Public Feeling

    by Ann Cvetkovich ...
    In Depression: A Public Feeling, Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and critical essay in search of ways of writing about depression as a cultural and political phenomenon that offer alternatives to medical models. She describes her own experience of the professional pressures, creative anxiety, and political hopelessness that led to intellectual blockage while she was finishing her dissertation and ... Read more

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  • Against Technoableism

    Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

    by Ashley Shew ...
    **One of BookRiot’s Ten Best Disability Books of the YearShortlisted for the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Awards“Wonderfully lucid.” —Andrew Leland, New York Times Book ReviewA manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology and disability.**When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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