Pale Faces (eBook)
192 Seiten
Bellevue Literary Press (Verlag)
978-1-934137-91-8 (ISBN)
Whether mild or deadly, anemia affects an essential body fluid: blood. In Pale Faces, Charles L. Bardes probes deeply into this illness as metaphor by exploring the impact of both science and culture on its treatment across the ages. His innovative life” of this condition ranges widely through history, mythology, literature and clinical practice to examine how our notions of specific medical conditions are often deeply rooted in language, symbolism and culture.
Delving into the annals of anemia and its treatment, he takes us on a fascinating journey back through the history of medicinefrom the Greeks and ancient practices of bloodletting and magic up to the diagnostic rituals of a modern medical office. A scholar of the literary as well as the medical arts, Bardes gives us a beautifully written, free-ranging text, resonant with poetic associations yet anchored in concrete clinical experience.
As a practicing physician, Bardes is also able to draw upon his direct experience with patients to demystify the doctor/patient relationship. Through detailed descriptions of the diagnostic processes involved in blood related conditions, as well as the particular understanding of the inner workings of the human body provided by modern medical science, we are treated to the complex ways in which doctors think.
Charles L. Bardes, MD, is a practicing physician who teaches extensively at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he directs the Medicine Clerkship and serves as Associate Dean. He is the author of Essential Skills in Clinical Medicine, a guide for students and interns, and Pale Faces: The Masks of Anemia, the first book in the Bellevue Literary Press Pathographies series. He has been the Bernard DeVoto Fellow in Nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and his essays have appeared in numerous journals, including Agni. He lives in New York.
lt;div>Charles L. Bardes, MD, is a practicing physician who teaches extensively at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he directs the Medicine Clerkship and serves as Associate Dean. He is the author of Essential Skills in Clinical Medicine, a guide for students and interns, and Pale Faces: The Masks of Anemia, the first book in the Bellevue Literary Press Pathographies series. He has been the Bernard DeVoto Fellow in Nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and his essays have appeared in numerous journals, including Agni. He lives in New York.
Preface: Anemia
I. SYMPTOMS / I FEEL SICK
1. Diseasification
2. Pallor
3. The Malice Sickle
II. DIAGNOSIS / WHAT’S WRONG
4. The Green Sicknesse
5. Anemia’s Old Tale
6. What the Doctor Is Thinking
7. Diagnostic Ceremonies
III. ANEMIC KNOWING
8. Spleen
9. Marrow
10. Diseases of the Blood
11. Anemia World
IV. TREATMENT / WHAT WOULD THEY DO TO ME
12. Iron
13. Bloodletting
14. Transfusion
15. Is Anemia Good for You?
16. The Blood of Medusa
V. MYTHOS / STORY
17. The Birth of Clinical Tragedy
18. Why Again Greeks?
POSTSCRIPT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NOTES AND REFERENCES
INDEX
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.4.2014 |
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Reihe/Serie | Bellevue Literary Press Pathographies |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Hämatologie | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik | |
ISBN-10 | 1-934137-91-X / 193413791X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-934137-91-8 / 9781934137918 |
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