Unit Two explores healthy psychological development. The third unit covers neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. Unit Four details the nursing care of clients with major psychiatric disorders. The Measure of Our Days Viking Jerome Groopman, the Dina and Raphael Recanati professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess, portrays eight people who face death and, from their stories, finds lessons on how to live. Each situation is transformed from a medical case to a spiritual journey of questioning and self-awareness.
Some stories come to resolution while others raise questions that await a reply.
Groopman examines what people can learn when life itself can no longer be taken for granted. The war produced mixed emotions for McDermott, from the boredom he endured before the Normandy invasion to the shock of caring for concentration camp prisoners in Ebensee, Austria, just days after Nazi Germany surrendered. It begins with a review and update of the relational model, which emphasizes the importance of connection in women's lives. The final pieces reframe several clinical concepts, such as women and depression and gender differences. Though epilepsy is the second most common neurological disorder after headache, most neurology textbooks provide only general information about its course and treatment.