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  • John Berger

    Ways of Learning

    by Iona Heath ...
    Series series My Reading
    Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that span 20 years of her correspondence with John Berger. In this book, Iona Heath writes about reading John Berger's writing over more than 50 years and her friendship and correspondence with him over the best part of 20 years. Dr Heath found that both of ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Matters of Life and Death

    Key Writings

    by Iona Heath ...
    In this extraordinary book, Iona Heath draws on her experience as a general practitioner to select and comment on a collection of passages concerning death and dying, and to consider the essential nature of general practice. In Ways of Dying Heath illuminates the process for professionals and lay readers, and stimulates consideration of approaches to improved care at end of life. Her renowned work ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Confronting an Ill Society

    David Widgery, General Practice, Idealism and the Chase for Change

    by Patrick Hutt, Iona Heath, Roger Neighbour ...
    Increasing concern about clinical negligence demands the provision of more detailed patient information about the complications and risks of treatment and the agreement of patients to any intervention from a simple physical examination to the most complex surgical procedure. This concise practical guide provides doctors and nurses with the appropriate information needed to ensure that the patients ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Green Bookshop

    Recommended Reading for Doctors and Others from the Medical Journal Education for Primary Care

    by John Salinsky, Iona Heath, Matthew Walters ...
    This collection that was first published in 2009, and is recommended reading for doctors and others includes: The Green Bookshop opens its doors; Books that won prizes; Great books that should have won prizes; Two books by one writer; A handful of classic novels; Short stories and essays; Books and the cinema; Biography and memoirs; Classic books about general practice; Best new books about ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Medical Humanities Companion, Volume 3

    by Pekka Louhiala, Iona Heath, John Saunders ...
    This third volume in the Companion to Medical Humanities series considers the concept of treatment as an active process which produces an outcome, be it effective, inappropriate or inadequate. It invites the reader to examine the relevance of the patients' belief in any given treatment and their confidence in the practitioner. Against a person-cent ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Medical Humanities Companion

    v. 1

    by Martyn Evans, Rolf Ahlzen, Iona Heath, Jane MacNaughton ...
    The phrase 'medical humanities' has a currency that is wider than any agreement as to what it means, though those engaged in the field usually know what they are attempting. This volume examines the idea of 'symptom' as a route to understanding the structure of clinical practice. Actual symptoms are always experienced by real, actual individuals - however much those experiences are mediated by ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Family Medicine

    The Classic Papers

    Edited by Michael Kidd, Iona Heath, Amanda Howe ...
    Series series WONCA Family Medicine
    Containing papers carefully compiled for both their historical importance and contemporary relevance, Family Medicine: The Classic Papers brings together a team of experts, led by global family medicine leaders Michael Kidd, Iona Heath and Amanda Howe, who explain the importance of each selected paper and how it contributes to international health care, current practice and research.The papers ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Making a Good Doctor

    Sources of Strength and Wisdom

    Edited by Edvin Schei, Iona Heath, Peter Dorward, Caroline Engen ...
    ‘Doctors will love this book. It speaks to them in profoundly personal ways, and also in stimulating intellectual ways [and] full of source material to help doctors and educators shape a better world in medicine.’ – Moira Stewart, PhD, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, Western University, CanadaWhat does it mean to be a good doctor? How do we learn ... Read more

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  • Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life

    Edited by Michael Carrithers ...
    Series Book 2 - Studies in Rhetoric and Culture
    Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness, displacement, or genocide. In dealing with such circumstances, people can develop new rhetorical forms ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Contemporary Fictions of Attention

    Reading and Distraction in the Twenty-First Century

    by Dr. Alice Bennett ...
    With the supposed shortening of our attention spans, what future is there for fiction in the age of the internet? Contemporary Fictions of Attention rejects this discourse of distraction-crisis which suggests that the future of reading is in peril, and instead finds that contemporary writers construct 'fictions of attention' that find some value in states or moments of inattention. Through ... Read more

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  • Stop What You're Doing And Read This!

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