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...

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