The Vaccine Narrative Reviews

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Release: 2008-07-11
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
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ISBN/ASIN: 0826515916
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The Salk vaccine seemed like a miracle to parents whose children were threatened with the scourge of polio. With its protection from polio, came also a story line-there were heroic researchers who would use science to protect us from epidemics and perhaps even eradicate disease. For most people, vaccines have become the magic bullets for dealing with dangerous diseases. The continuing quest for new vaccines, including an HIV/AIDS vaccine, despite technical, epidemiological, and social obstacles, suggests the abiding power of this narrative.

The author examines four cases that span the twentieth century--diphtheria, rubella, pertussis, and HIV/AIDS. Each case challenges the reader to examine how the values we attribute to vaccines influence their use. Diphtheria vaccination brought laboratory science into an existing narrative based on earlier vaccines. With rubella vaccine, researchers efficiently responded to an epidemic of birth defects while subtly changing the relati Download The Vaccine Narrative for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Narrative Matters: The Power of the Personal Essay in Health Policy Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2006-08-07
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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ISBN/ASIN: 0801884799
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This anthology brings together the personal stories of patients, physicians, policy makers, and others whose writings humanize discussions and deliberations about health policy.Drawn from the popular "Narrative Matters" column in the journal Health Affairs, the essays epitomize the policy narrative, a new genre of writing that explores health policy through the expression of personal experiences. Forty-six articles focus on such topics as the hard financial realities of medical insurance, AIDS, assisted suicide, marketing drugs, genetic engineering, organ transplants, and ethnic and racial disparities in the health care system. The narratives raise ethical and moral issues that are being studied in many of our nation's medical schools. This compelling collection provides important insight into the human dimensions of health care and health policy. Download Narrative Matters for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness Reviews

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Release: 2006-03-02
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0195166752
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Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine, primary care medicine, narratology, and the study of doctor-patient relationships, narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness. By placing events in temporal order, with beginnings, middles, and ends, and by establishing connections among things using metaphor and figural language, narrative medicine helps doctors to recognize patients and diseases, convey knowledge, accompany patients through the ordeals of illness--and according to Rita Charon, can ultimately lead to more humane, ethical, and effective health care.
Trained in medicine and in literary studies, Rita Charon is a pioneer of and authority on the emerging field of narrative medicine. In this impo Download Narrative Medicine for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Integrating Narrative Medicine and Evidence-based Medicine: The Everyday Social Practice of Healing Pdf

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Release: 2011-04-11
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
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ISBN/ASIN: 1846193508
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Scientific, evidence-based medicine is increasingly seen as fundamental to providing effective healthcare, but narrative-based medicine sheds light on social and interpersonal aspects of the practitioner-patient interaction which can also greatly affect healthcare outcomes. The philosophies underlying these two approaches seem to contrast, yet those who can integrate both into their practice are among the most successful medical professionals. Integrating Narrative Medicine and Evidence-based Medicine provides answers to the key question of how medical practitioners can best put both approaches into practice. It anticipates a future where evidence-based practice will be expected of all medical professionals, but contends that the integration of a narrative-based approach will also be crucial, presenting a unique perspective on structuring the patient-professional encounter for optimum results. It develops a cultural analysis and socio-cultural theory of the science of healing, and desc Download Integrating Narrative Medicine and Evidence-based Medicine for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative Pdf Reviews

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Release: 2011-08-02
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0199743479
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In the summer of 1629, John Winthrop described a series of epidemics that devastated Native American populations along the eastern seaboard of New England as a "miraculous plague." Winthrop was struck by the providential nature of these waves of disease, which contributed neatly to the settlers' justifications for colonial expansion. Taking Winthrop's phrase as its cornerstone, Miraculous Plagues re-imagines New England's literary history by tracing seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century epidemics alongside events including early migration, the Antinomian controversy, the evolution of the halfway covenant and jeremiad, and Boston's 1721 inoculation controversy.

Moving beyond familiar histories of New World epidemics (often referred to as the "virgin soil" model), Cristobal Silva identifies epidemiology as a generic category with specialized forms and conventions. Epidemiology functions as both subject and method in Silva's argument, as he details narratives that represent Download Miraculous Plagues for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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