Phantom Illness

Author : Carla Cantor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phantom Illness written by Carla Cantor and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author summarizes the latest theories on the nature and origins of hypochondria; describes treatments, medications, therapies, and offers readers a test about their own health concerns.

Author : Vidya Krishna
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9354925758
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phantom Plague written by Vidya Krishna and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world. It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others-rich and poor. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela survived it, just. For centuries, tuberculosis has ravaged cities and plagued the human body. In Phantom Plague, Vidya Krishnan, traces the history of tuberculosis from the slums of 19th-century New York to modern Mumbai. In a narrative spanning century, Krishnan shows how superstition and folk-remedies, made way for scientific understanding of TB, such that it was controlled and cured in the West. The cure was never available to black and brown nations. And the tuberculosis bacillus showed a remarkable ability to adapt-so that at the very moment it could have been extinguished as a threat to humanity, it found a way back, aided by authoritarian government, toxic kindness of philanthropists, science denialism and medical apartheid. Krishnan's original reporting paints a granular portrait of the post-antibiotic era as a new, aggressive, drug resistant strain of TB takes over. Phantom Plague is an urgent, riveting and fascinating narrative that deftly exposes the weakest links in our battle against this ancient foe.

Author : Carla Cantor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780788192692
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phantom Illness written by Carla Cantor and published by . This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To many, the term "hypochondriac" is synonymous with crank & fraud. However, hypochondriacs are not pretending to be sick. Their complaints may be exaggerated, but their pain & suffering are real. Through extensive interviews with physicians & compelling stories of men & women disabled by illness phobias & incomprehensible symptoms, she helps to erase the stigma of hypochondria. She summarizes theories on the origins & nature of the disorder; describes treatments, including medication, behavior therapy, & psychotherapy; & offers a diagnostic test so you can determine whether you are abnormally concerned about your health.

Author : Carla Cantor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phantom Illness written by Carla Cantor and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carla Cantor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756762179
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phantom Illness written by Carla Cantor and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This breakthrough book is the first to offer hope to those struggling with a debilitating disorder generally dismissed by the medical community: hypochondria. Medical writer Carla Cantor, the director of publications at N.Y.U. Medical Center, validates the often discounted fears & confusions of sufferers by sharing her own story of recovery as well as the compelling accounts of hundreds of others. Authoritatively & encouragingly, she summarizes the latest knowledge research on the nature of this disorder & its possible treatments. Co-author Brian Fallon is a psychiatrist & assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia Univ., & a recipient of a major grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study hypochondria.

Author : Leslie Jamison
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555970885
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Empathy Exams written by Leslie Jamison and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another's pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? By confronting pain—real and imagined, her own and others'—Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning wide-ranging territory—from poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarceration—in its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace.

Author : Herman Staudenmayer
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566703055
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Illness written by Herman Staudenmayer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-09-29 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental illness: certain health professionals and clinical ecologists claim it impacts and inhibits 15 percent of the population. Its afflicted are led to believe environmental illness (EI) originates with food, chemicals, and other stimuli in their surroundings -as advocates call for drastic measures to remedy the situation. What if relief proves elusive-and the patient is sent on a course of ongoing, costly and ineffective "treatment"? Several hundred individuals who believed they were suffering from EI have been evaluated or treated by Herman Staudenmayer since the 1970s. Staudenmayer believed the symptoms harming his patients actually had psychophysiological origins-based more in fear of a hostile world than any suspected toxins contained in the environment. Staudenmayer's years of research, clinical work-and successful care-are now summarized in Environmental Illness: Myth & Reality. Dismissing much of the information that has attempted to defend EI and its culture of victimization, Staudenmayer details the alternative diagnoses and treatments that have helped patients recognize their true conditions-and finally overcome them, often after years of prolonged suffering.

Author : Cassandra Crawford
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814760120
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phantom Limb written by Cassandra Crawford and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phantom limb pain is one of the most intractable and merciless pains ever known—a pain that haunts appendages that do not physically exist, often persisting with uncanny realness long after fleshy limbs have been traumatically, surgically, or congenitally lost. The very existence and “naturalness” of this pain has been instrumental in modern science’s ability to create prosthetic technologies that many feel have transformative, self-actualizing, and even transcendent power. In Phantom Limb, Cassandra S. Crawford critically examines phantom limb pain and its relationship to prosthetic innovation, tracing the major shifts in knowledge of the causes and characteristics of the phenomenon. Crawford exposes how the meanings of phantom limb pain have been influenced by developments in prosthetic science and ideas about the extraordinary power of these technologies to liberate and fundamentally alter the human body, mind, and spirit. Through intensive observation at a prosthetic clinic, interviews with key researchers and clinicians, and an analysis of historical and contemporary psychological and medical literature, she examines the modernization of amputation and exposes how medical understanding about phantom limbs has changed from the late-19th to the early-21st century. Crawford interrogates the impact of advances in technology, medicine, psychology and neuroscience, as well as changes in the meaning of limb loss, popular representations of amputees, and corporeal ideology. Phantom Limb questions our most deeply held ideas of what is normal, natural, and even moral about the physical human body.

Author : Rosalynn Carter
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1605290939
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Within Our Reach written by Rosalynn Carter and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Within Our Reach, Rosalynn Carter and coauthors Susan K. Golant and Kathryn E. Cade render an insightful, unsparing assessment of the state of mental health. Mrs. Carter has been deeply invested in this issue since her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, campaigned for governor of Georgia, when she saw firsthand the horrific, dehumanizing treatment of people with mental illnesses. Using stories from her 35 years of advocacy to springboard into a discussion of the larger issues at hand, Carter crafts an intimate and powerful account of a subject previously shrouded in stigma and shadow, surveying the dimensions of an issue that has affected us all. She describes a system that continues to fail those in need, even though recent scientific breakthroughs with mental illness have potential to help most people lead more normal lives. Within Our Reach is a seminal, searing, and ultimately optimistic look at how far we've come since Jimmy Carter's days on the campaign trail and how far we have yet to go.

Author : Robert W. Baloh
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030407462
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Havana Syndrome written by Robert W. Baloh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is one of the most extraordinary cases in the history of science: the mating calls of insects were mistaken for a “sonic weapon” that led to a major diplomatic row. Since August 2017, the world media has been absorbed in the “attack” on diplomats from the American and Canadian Embassies in Cuba. While physicians treating victims have described it as a novel and perplexing condition that involves an array of complaints including brain damage, the authors present compelling evidence that mass psychogenic illness was the cause of “Havana Syndrome.” This mysterious condition that has baffled experts is explored across 11-chapters which offer insights by a prominent neurologist and an expert on psychogenic illness. A lively and enthralling read, the authors explore the history of similar scares from the 18th century belief that sounds from certain musical instruments were harmful to human health, to 19th century cases of “telephone shock,” and more contemporary panics involving people living near wind turbines that have been tied to a variety of health complaints. The authors provide dozens of examples of kindred episodes of mass hysteria throughout history, in addition to psychosomatic conditions and even the role of insects in triggering outbreaks. Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria is a scientific detective story and a case study in the social construction of mass psychogenic illness.