Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine primary care medicine narratology and the study of doctor-patient relationships narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize absorb interpret and be moved by the stories of illness. By placing events in temporal order with beginnings ...

Combining first-person narration, scholarly reflections, and advocacy, this volume features conversations with physician-scholars Rita Charon and Jonathan M. Metzl and provides a holistic view of the human interactions and structural forces that define healthcare today. The contributors afford us opportunities to reconsider health through a poetic and political lense and help us envision a more socially informed and just practice of medicine.

A moving look at the challenges and triumphs of caregiving, told through candid literary accounts by more than 60 doctors, nurses, and other healersWhere It Hurts invites us to peer into the space between health and illness, life and death, through the voices of the people who work on medicine’s frontlines: doctors, nurses, EMTs, therapists, and more. In raw and revealing essays, stories, and poems, they share what it’s like to deal with difficult patients...

Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine, primary care medicine, narratology, and the study of doctor-patient relationships, narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness. By placing events in temporal order, with beg...

The bus rides were never just about getting to school. For Jordan, Dre, Malik, Kev, and Jules, the bus was where friendships were tested, secrets were shared, and life-altering choices were made. Set in an urban landscape full of both danger and opportunity, "The Bus Riders" is a powerful coming-of-age story about loyalty, survival, and finding your way in a world that doesn't always offer second chances.

The Ghetto CowboyBy Charon BrazzelIn a world left in ruins, where the government has collapsed and the strong prey on the weak, one man rides against the darkness.They call him The Ghetto Cowboy—a silent guardian with a shotgun, a machete, and a code of righteousness etched into his soul. After society crumbles, he saddles up and rides through the ashes of America, battling warlords, slavers, and a rising army of chaos known as the Vultures.But he's not alon...

In a neighborhood divided by invisible lines and unspoken rules, a cracked sidewalk becomes the unlikely ground for change. The Sidewalk Garden follows Malik, a curious and kind-hearted boy, as he discovers a small garden growing in the middle of a struggling urban street. With the help of Zoe, a classmate from the other side of town, and a group of diverse kids, Malik learns that planting seeds can grow more than just flowers—it can grow hope, unity, and a better future. This heartwarming...

When Howard and Thandi argue about music, their excitable choir mistress, Miss Trill, teaches them a valuable lesson about diversity.Thandi is selected to sing the solo for Central Academy's celebration in song. When her grandmother fails to appear, she has to put aside her fear and disappointment and find the strength to sing.Introducing several fun, new characters, Howard and Thandi take us on a journey into the world of singing.

A book of prayers, rituals, and liturgies that grows out of communities committed to abolishing poverty.Prayer has long sustained movements for social change. Ritual gives shape to our desire for justice, and liturgy lends power to our work. In We Pray Freedom, we learn from activists and movement builders the songs, stories, and ritual practices that keep them going for the long haul. The Freedom Church of the Poor, called for by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr...

This comprehensive, hands-on guide to making theatre – perfect for any school, college, youth group or amateur-theatre company – gives you the knowledge you need to take your productions to the next level.Curtain Up! is packed with invaluable advice and practical tips on every aspect of putting on your show, including:Direction: from choosing your project to casting, rehearsals and opening nightVocal Direction: give your singers and actors the confi...

The last battle has been fought, and the victors are leaving the field.What happens to the remaining dragons now?In the End of Dragons, seventeen new voices show our young readers fantastical worlds where dragons and magic were real.

Virginia Woolf's daring essay on how illness transforms our perception, plus an essay by Woolf's mother from the caregiver's perspective: "Revelatory." — BooklistThis new publication of "On Being Ill" with "Notes from Sick Rooms" presents Virginia Woolf and her mother, Julia Stephen, in textual conversation for the first time in literary history. In the poignant and humorous essay "On Being Ill," Woolf observes that though illness is part of every human be...