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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “claudia malacrida”
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  • A Special Hell

    Institutional Life in Alberta's Eugenic Years

    by Claudia Malacrida ...
    Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the dark history of the treatment of “mentally defective” children and adults in twentieth-century Alberta. Focusing on the Michener Centre in Red Deer, one of the last such facilities operating in Canada, A Special Hell is a sobering account of the ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering

    Life Choices, Identities and Methods

    by Elham Amini, Laetitia Coles, Emma Cooke, Joan Cronin, Rosemary Crosse, Katarzyna Gajek, Jasneek Chawla, Fibian Lukalo, Claudia Malacrida, Michelle Millar, Jana Obrovská, Daniela Reimer ...
    What does mothering mean in different cultures and societies? This book extensively applies biographical and narrative research methods to mothering from international perspectives.This edited collection engages with changing attitudes and approaches to mothering from women’s individual biographical experiences, illuminating how socially anticipated tasks of mothering shaped through interlinking ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Mourning the Dreams

    How Parents Create Meaning from Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Early Infant Death

    by Claudia Malacrida ...
    Series series International Institute for Qualitative Methodology Series
    Mourning the Dreams is an accessible and moving account of parents’ experiences of grief and recovery after losing an infant during pregnancy, childbirth, or within the first month of life. Drawing from the sociology of emotions, health research and psychology, her own experience, and a range of qualitative methods, Claudia Malacrida finds that bereaved parents not only grieve their child and its ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • The Myth of Normal

    Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

    by Gabor Maté MD ...
    **The instant New York Times bestsellerBy the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.**In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems ... Read more

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  • The Transgender Child

    A Handbook for Families and Professionals

    by Stephanie Brill, Rachel Pepper ...
    This comprehensive first of its kind guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising their children in every city and state. Through extensive research and interviews, as well as years of experience working in the field, the authors cover gender variance from birth through college. What do you do when your toddler daughter’s first sentence is that she’s a ... Read more

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  • Being There

    Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters

    by Erica Komisar ...
    A powerful look at the importance of a mother’s presence in the first years of life**Featured in The Wall Street Journal, and seen on Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, and CBS New York**In this important and empowering book, veteran psychoanalyst Erica Komisar explains why a mother's emotional and physical presence in her child's life--especially during the first three years--gives the child a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Secret Strength of Depression, Fourth Edition

    by Frederic Flach, MD, KCHS ...
    **"...can make you feel better just by reading it." --Boston GlobeFully Revised and Updated**Dr. Frederic Flach was one of the pioneers in the study of biology and depression and established the groundwork for the understanding of human resilience. When it was first published in 1974,***The Secret Strength of Depression***allowed people suffering from depression to no longer feel trapped in stigma ... Read more

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  • Understand Child Development: Teach Yourself

    by Carolyn Meggitt ...
    This book is a complete guide to child development from birth to 16 years. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject it will take you through all the perspectives on the subject, covering physical, cognitive, moral and behavioural aspects of a child's development. It covers key figures such as Piaget, Freud and Bowlby as well as looking at the work of more contemporary theorists. With case ... Read more

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  • Denying to the Grave

    Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us

    by Sara E. Gorman, Jack M. Gorman ...
    Why do some parents refuse to vaccinate their children? Why do some people keep guns at home, despite scientific evidence of risk to their family members? And why do people use antibiotics for illnesses they cannot possibly alleviate? When it comes to health, many people insist that science is wrong, that the evidence is incomplete, and that unidentified hazards lurk everywhere. In Denying to the ... Read more

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  • My Imaginary Illness

    A Journey into Uncertainty and Prejudice in Medical Diagnosis

    by Chloe Atkins, Brian D. Hodges ...
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    How Patients ThinkAt age twenty-one, Chloë Atkins began suffering from a mysterious illness, the symptoms of which rapidly worsened. Paralyzed for months at a time, she frequently required intubation and life support. She eventually became quadriplegic, dependent both on a wheelchair and on health professionals who refused to believe there was anything physically wrong with her. When test after ... Read more

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  • Pre-Parenting

    by Thomas R Verny, M.D. ...
    How does a mother's tone of voice affect her unborn child? What kind of music, if any, should a child be exposed to in the womb? Can parents influence the predispositions of their child to traits like depression, or something as elusive as basic goodness? Thanks to revolutionary discoveries in neuroscience and developmental psychology in recent years, says Dr. Thomas Verny, we now know more about ... Read more

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