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  • Persons Who Are Poems from High School

    Annotated Reminiscences of Friendship and Prejudice

    by Jeff Nisker ...
    In Persons Who Are Poems from High School, linked narratives explore today's ethics problems; problems that existed but seemed less important when I was in high school. I include as an ethics problem lack of access to oral contraception, due to prejudices that still exist today from some physicians, parents and teachers. These high school stories have become more important to me since I recently ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Love and Injustice in Medicine

    Annotated Narrative Ethics Explorations

    by Jeff Nisker, MD PhD ...
    Love and Injustice in Medicine explores the injustices Jeff Nisker has witnessed in his many years in medicine, including the injustice of illness itself. As in Nisker's previous books, he uses narrative to investigate health-ethics problems, while at the same time promoting compassion in healthcare. Love and Injustice in Medicine will be of interest to health professionals of all disciplines, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Confined to the Sidelines

    New and Selected Verses

    by Jeff Nisker ...
    Confined to the Sidelines is a juxtaposition of the poems Jeff Nisker wrote in the time of COVID with four of his related social-justice poems. With this volume, Nisker hopes to imbue new compassion in health professionals, other health-policy makers and the general public, who all are or will be immersed in COVID's resulting diminishment of our health and social systems. COVID altered Nisker's ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Health Humanities Reader

    by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood, Rhonda L. Soricelli, Lisa Keränen, Michael Sappol, Shelley Wall, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Joseph N. Straus, Martin F. Norden, Felicia Cohn, Martha Montello, John Lantos, Amy Haddad, Rebecca Garden, Mark Clark, Howard Brody, Jack Coulehan, Rosemarie Tong, Sander L. Gilman, Gretchen A. Case, Alice Dreger, Marjorie Levine-Clark, Susan M. Squier, Rafael Campo, Sayantani DasGupta, Jonathan M. Metzl, Daniel Goldberg, Maren Grainger-Monsen, Thomas R. Cole, Benjamin Saxton, E. Ann Kaplan, Jerald Winakur, Bradley Lewis, Anne Hudson Jones, Michael Rowe, Ian Williams, Tod Chambers, Raymond C. Barfield, Lucy Selman, Jeffrey P. Bishop, Audrey Shafer, Catherine Belling, Paul Root Wolpe, Jeff Nisker, Julie M. Aultman, Michael Blackie, Erin Gentry Lamb, Alan Bleakley, Jay Baruch, Lisa I. Iezzoni, Bernice Hausman, Allison B. Kavey, Rebecca J. Hester ...
    Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice.In ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Patiently Waiting For…

    by Jeff Nisker ...
    Patiently Waiting For… is the story of the indomitable, feisty, and subversive Ruth, who, having quadriplegia, longs to access a wider world through use of available software and a computer. She decides to almost run over, with her power chair, a physician who is also a writer of health-related social justice plays and ask him to write her story. What results is this powerful indictment of the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • From Calcedonies to Orchids

    Plays Promoting Humanity in Health Policy

    by Jeff Nisker ...
    Jeff Nisker has been writing plays since the early 1990s. He did this in order to bring audiences to the position of persons immersed in the vortex of new scientific capacity and its social implications. Jeff ultimately aims to promote humanity in health policy development. From Calcedonies to Orchids: Plays Promoting Humanity in Health Policy is a collection of plays based on Jeff's experiences, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Urban Legends

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  • The Receptionist

    An Education at The New Yorker

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    In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn’t expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with famous writers at famous watering holes throughout bohemian Greenwich Village, ... Read more

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