Patient poets
Subtitle: illness from inside out
By: Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Series: Pedagogy in medical humanities; Perspectives in medical humanities; Pedagogy in medical humanities; Perspectives in medical humanities
Publisher: University of California Medical Humanities Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780983463979
Subjects: Medical personnel-caregiver relationships; Medical personnel and patient; Autobiographical poetry; Breast; Poetry; Cancer; Patients; Medicine; Writings of People with disabilities; Patients' writings; Patient; Psychology; Writing; Expressed Emotions; Poetry as Topic; Professional-Patient Relations
Description: "'Patient poets: Illness from inside out' invites readers to consider what caregivers and medical professionals may learn from poetry by patients. It offers reflections on poetry as a particularly apt vehicle for articulating the often isolating experiences of pain, fatigue, changed life rhythms, altered self-understanding, embarrassment, resistance, and acceptance. The chapters discuss poems that represent a particular dimension of the experience of illness or disability -- foreboding, isolation, fear, shame, wry humor, acceptance, deepening self-knowledge." -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-157).
Table of contents: title: Getting the news from poems; title: Insider diagnosis; title: Naming the elephant; title: Outrageous intimacies; title: The fear factor; title: A solitary journey; title: In it together; title: Keeping on keeping on; title: Allowing lament; title: At the threshold.