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epub |eng | | Author:Piyali Bhattacharya

Becoming a Reluctant Breadwinner Swati Khurana I. Breadwinner I imagine that word in all capitals, outlined in yellow, against a red background – the graphics befitting a superhero. As a ...
( Category: Asian American Studies June 6,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lauren Marks

20 A few nights later, Jonah and I were chatting over the phone. He was well aware that my go-to conversation topic these days tended to be Helen Keller, so ...
( Category: Neurology May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-16 | Author:Howie, Leonie; Robertson, Adele; & Adele Robertson

We had seen a kind of tidal ebb and flow in the former days of the Department of Health. Sometimes the people in decision-making positions understood the demands and requirements ...
( Category: Nurse-Patient Relations May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-06 | Author:Elizabeth L. Silver

Waiting for Godot In January 1953 in Paris, the French playwright Samuel Beckett debuted his play Waiting for Godot, a tragicomedy in two acts. Although critics have dissected its theme ...
( Category: Pediatrics May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rachel Pearson

I ENDED UP TALKING with Damien a lot. I guess it was because I felt guilty for being part of the team that was operating on his foot. Maybe I ...
( Category: Medical May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-25 | Author:Oliver Sacks [Sacks, Oliver]

And if this was so for Donne, if this is so for every patient who is condemned to lie in bed (‘miserable, and though common to all, inhuman posture ...’), ...
( Category: Health Policy May 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Alanna Mitchell

The Toxic Prayer Vitamin C therapy brings to mind the history of those other chemical assaults on cancer cells, known as chemotherapy. The very idea that drugs could halt the ...
( Category: Medical April 25,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gina Kolata

Part II Amanda Baxley: The Next Generation 11 A Life Transformed On that late afternoon in February 2004, on that awful day that Buddy learned that he did indeed have ...
( Category: Pathology March 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-14 | Author:Oliver Sacks [Sacks, Oliver]

SACKS: Although, although this wasn’t a conscious mimicry: it was a sort of convulsive taking in of other people’s gestures and faces, even in split seconds. But, no, there’s a ...
( Category: Neurology February 27,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-09-11 | Author:Larry Brilliant

CHAPTER 13 Tales of the Jungle We are all faced with a series of opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. —Charles Swindoll We returned to the capital of India, alive ...
( Category: Epidemiology February 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-26 | Author:Izzeldin Abuelaish [Abuelaish, Izzeldin]

FOUR Hearts and Minds SO MUCH OF WHAT HAPPENS in my homeland results from decisions taken a long way from the streets of Jabalia City where I live. The Oslo ...
( Category: Middle East February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Mattern, Susan P.;

Chapter Seven GALEN AND HIS PATIENTS t this point we lose the narrative thread of Galen’s life. We know—from one vague reference—that he suffered in the reign of Marcus’s son ...
( Category: Rome September 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-03 | Author:Tig Notaro

7 Largo Standing on the side of the stage listening to Ed Helms wrap up his set at Largo was the closest I’d come to having stage fright in a ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers August 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-08 | Author:Luke Dittrich

PART IV DISCOVERY TWENTY WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD “It’s terrible how things accrue.” Those are the first words in the transcript of my first interview with Brenda Milner. When ...
( Category: Medical August 11,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sherwin B. Nuland

VI Having discovered the nature of puerperal fever, having devised a way to prevent it, and having accomplished these feats of clinical science in a logical, lucid way consistent with ...
( Category: Medical July 12,2016 )