This compilation of narratives culled from the medical/humanities journal Ars Medica deals with all aspects of healing and the medical experience, and sections describe the perspectives from which the works originate: patients, family and friends and practitioners. Poems, prose and essays are helpfully classified into themes in a users guide, allowing for easy access to relevant essays. Ranging from whimsical to gut wrenching to hopeful, the essays show the varieties of human experience in extremis. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Body & Soul features inspiring and award-winning fiction, essays, memoirs, poetry, photography, and visual art on the universal themes of wellness, treatment, and healing. Illness affects us all; we are called on to support and care for loved ones who face health challenges, and in turn, we encounter our own physical and emotional frailties when our health declines. Body & Soul features inspiring and award-winning fiction, essays, memoirs, poetry, photography, and visual art on the universal themes of wellness, treatment, and healing.Told from the points of view of patients, practitioners, caregivers, families, and friends, Body & Soul provides a powerful literary perspective on how we are challenged, bewildered, changed, and uplifted by our encounters with change, illness, and disease. Readers will appreciate the richness, depth, and diversity of these healing stories and will become motivated to generate and share their own transformative narratives.Together with the online discussion guide (providing questions relating to selected pieces in the anthology), Body & Soul is an ideal text for courses and support groups as well as individual reflection. Students and practitioners from all clinical disciplines and scholars in the humanities and social sciences will find this text invaluable.
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