Body & Soul : : Narratives of Healing from Ars Medica / / ed. by Rex Kay, Robin Roger, Ronald Ruskin, Allison Crawford, Allan D. Peterkin.

• MitwirkendeR: Baruch, Jay,; Benvenuto, Christine,; Berg, Susie,; Bradley, William,; Cason, Pat,; Clark, Stephan,; Clarke, Linda E.,; Crawford, Allison,; Croft, Susan,; Cross, Sarah,; Dale, Cindy,; Dorward, Ian G.,; Elliott, Anne,; Foley, Diane,; George, Faye,; Giorgio, Kathie,; Givner, Joan,; Goldblatt, Patricia F.,; Govier, Katherine,; Grey, John,; Guildford, Doug,; Hall, Pam,; Handler, Jessica,; Hauch, Alison,; Holbrook, J. David,; Hoskins, Isabel,; Hostovsky, Paul,; Hunter, Jon,; Jagoe, Catherine,; Kay, Rex,; Kolak, Lorie,; Lafayette-Lebovics Rotenberg, Menorah,; Leahman, Jill,; Leaney, Nigel,; Lombardo, Tom,; Martin, Jane,; Maunder, Robert,; McConnell, Michael Constantine,; McLean, Helen,; O'Donoghue, Mary,; Page, Kathy,; Richler, Nancy,; Roy, Ruby,; Ruskin, Ronald,; Samaras, Nicholas,; Sherman, Kenneth,; Spears, Heather,; Steinberg, Alan,; Stevenson, George J.,; Stewart, Pamela,; Stuckey, Heather L.,; Todkill, Anne Marie,; Trainer, Yvonne,; Valinoti, Eileen,; Vozenilek, Gina P.,; Whang, Paul,; Wilch, Gina,; Willard, Christopher,; Williams, Arthur Robinson,
• HerausgeberIn: Crawford, Allison,; Kay, Rex,; Peterkin, Allan D.,; Roger, Robin,; Ruskin, Ronald,
• TeilnehmendeR: Orkin, Aaron.
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 18 illustrations

Illness affects us all; we are called on to support and care for loved ones who face health challenges, and in turn, we encounter our own physical and emotional frailties when our health declines. Body & Soul features inspiring and award-winning fiction, essays, memoirs, poetry, photography, and visual art on the universal themes of wellness, treatment, and healing.Told from the points of view of patients, practitioners, caregivers, families, and friends, Body & Soul provides a powerful literary perspective on how we are challenged, bewildered, changed, and uplifted by our encounters with change, illness, and disease. Readers will appreciate the richness, depth, and diversity of these healing stories and will become motivated to generate and share their own transformative narratives.Together with the online discussion guide (providing questions relating to selected pieces in the anthology), Body & Soul is an ideal text for courses and support groups as well as individual reflection. Students and practitioners from all clinical disciplines and scholars in the humanities and social sciences will find this text invaluable.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- User's Guide -- General Introduction -- Part 1: Patients -- Introduction -- As One Might Expect -- Hands: A Suite of Stories -- Prenatal Exam -- Sunday Nights at the Shangri-La -- A Picture Made of Sound -- Centre of Dread -- At Thirteen, Asthmatic -- Daughter Cells -- BSE -- Things Taken -- Pain Scale -- Seeing the Heart -- Matter and Energy -- My Little Heart Attack -- The Eighth Day -- Life Study -- Second Sight -- Lethargy, Resulting from the Sudden Extinction of Light -- On the Loss and Reconstruction of a Self -- The Cure of Metaphor -- Kasabach-Merritt Syndrome -- Inadequacy of Impotence -- Diabetes: My Body Says "Fall" -- Care for the Patient -- I, Michael -- Part 2: Friends and Family -- Introduction -- Drawing Insulin -- Days and Nights in NICU -- Eden and I Are Playing Go Fish -- Palliation -- All Out of Funny in Crystal Lake, California -- 911 -- Stoma -- Unpacking My Daughter's Library -- My Father's Polio -- Lie Down -- Friendship Bracelets -- Hope from a Distance -- Something Happened -- The Right Thing to Say -- Second Round -- On Different Hospital Floors -- The Alzheimer's Man -- The Second Parlour -- The Wong-Baker Scale -- Denial -- Part 3: Practitioners -- Introduction -- Accident Room -- Tale of a T-shirt -- The Texture of a Word -- Table of Unidentified Contents -- Figuring the Ground -- Refugees in Southeast Asia -- Mid-winter Night -- On Pathography -- Elysium -- First Day on the Wards -- On Call -- Making Images