Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary

Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary PDF

Author: Rebecca Brown

Publisher: Terrace Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780299189709

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Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary is an intimate, exquisite, and true account of what it is to help a parent die. After her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, former home care worker and award-winning writer Rebecca Brown cared for her mother during the last six months of her life. This spare, unsentimental book comes out of that experience. In short chapters headed by definitions of medical terms, she confronts anemia, chemotherapy, metastasis, cremation. Brown's is a poignant and unflinching story of how one family coped with loss and learned about the longevity of love. The Wisconsin edition is for sale only in North America.

The Family Medical Reference Book

The Family Medical Reference Book PDF

Author: Philip Evans

Publisher: Little Brown GBR

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 9780316858984

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This authoritative guide to good health is designed to give answers to every question you might want to ask your doctor, from understanding how your body works and why it sometimes goes wrong, to ways of keeping it in good order. The book is divided into two parts. Part I describes all phases and aspects of the human life cycle, giving extensive information on emotional as well as physical problems specific to critical points in life such as pregnancy and birth, adolescence and old age. Part II describes just how each system of the body works, how it sometimes goes wrong and how illness and disorders can be recognised and treated. Also included is information on diseases that affect the whole body, such as cancer, and on mental health and illness.

Forget Burial

Forget Burial PDF

Author: Marty Fink

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2020-11-13

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1978813783

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Finalist for the LGBTQ Nonfiction Award from Lambda Literary Queers and trans people in the 1980s and early ‘90s were dying of AIDS and the government failed to care. Lovers, strangers, artists, and community activists came together take care of each other in the face of state violence. In revisiting these histories alongside ongoing queer and trans movements, this book uncovers how early HIV care-giving narratives actually shape how we continue to understand our genders and our disabilities. The queer and trans care-giving kinships that formed in response to HIV continue to inspire how we have sex and build chosen families in the present. In unearthing HIV community newsletters, media, zines, porn, literature, and even vampires, Forget Burial bridges early HIV care-giving activisms with contemporary disability movements. In refusing to bury the legacies of long-term survivors and of those we have lost, this book brings early HIV kinships together with ongoing movements for queer and trans body self-determination.