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Chimes of Time
Wounded Health Professionals. Essays on Recovery
Daena Murray (Author); Nicholas Rothwell (Author)
This book is an ambitious project uniting various fields in a multidisciplinary venture
drawing on academics and clinicians from medicine, psychology and educational
sciences. The interdisciplinary approach has assembled medical, educational and
health specialists - many of whom are a rare assemble of outstanding academics and
clinicians - with scholarly contributions from many different countries and institutes.
It provides a plethora of essays and reviews by clinicians and academics, many
contributions self-confessional, disclosing details of their own personal pain and
suffering with critical life events including either physical or psychological illnesses,
and a description of their own resources and strengths. There are also chapters
provided by academics with creative and novel ideas drawing on insight derived from
literature, arts and psychology as well as medicine, creating models for encouraging
personal development coping despite adversity and eventually finding meaning
towards recovery both physically and psychologically. This process of recovery
frequently required the support of trusted families and friends, teachers, and fellow
physicians and psychologists, enabling them to pursue interesting and outstanding
careers “despite” these apparent disadvantages. The authors are all very reflective,
providing good advice for young practitioners and “afflicted” alike. The distinguished
contributors show the power of the role of psycho-history and biography in
understanding who researchers have been influenced by, and what and why. This
book will be useful for practitioners and researchers, but also for laymen and social
policy makers. The intended readership thus includes those interested in health
psychology, sociology, anthropology, public health and mental health sciences.
9789088900945, £42.00, 2013
PB, 280p, Sidestone Press
Medical Science
Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men
Excavations in the 19th-century Burial Ground of the
London Hospital, 2006
Louise Fowler (Author); Natasha Powers (Author)
In 2006, archaeological excavations in the grounds of the Royal London Hospital
uncovered the remains of a burial ground used primarily for deceased but
unclaimed patients. The buried population included at least 259 people who died
between c 1825 and 1841. These were mostly adult and male, and many, prior to
the Anatomy Act of 1832, had been dissected or subjected to autopsy; this took
place alongside the vivisection of animals, including exotic species.
A wealth of primary documentation is combined with the archaeological evidence
to reveal the day-to-day life of the hospital and the complex relationship between
medical innovation and criminal activity in the early 19th century.
The wealth of primary documentation, combined with the recovered artefacts
and faunal remains, reveals details of the daily life of the wards and accident and
emergency centre, the treatment of patients, the politics associated with running
a large institution and the individuals who made this possible. The experiences of
William Valentine, house governor, illustrate the frustrations of balancing medical
teaching with ethical and practical concerns.
9781907586132, £26.00, 2013
HB, 250p, col illus throughout, volume 62, MoLas Monograph
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