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The Doctor-Activist

Author : Ellen L. Bassuk

Publisher : Springer

Page : 269 pages

File Size : 40,64 MB

Release : 2013-11-11

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1489960325

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This compelling book traces the lives of ten doctors who have devoted their careers to helping disadvantaged patients while forwarding important social issues. An inspiring collection of dramatic autobiographical accounts, The Doctor-Activist shows how the exceptional humanity and idealism of these doctors helped to advance many struggles and movements, including civil rights, women's rights, world peace, environmental protection, and universal access to health care, among others. Considered together, their stories raise many of the salient issues and ethical questions that confront the doctor choosing, creating, and living the life of an activist.



Oregon's Doctor to the World

Author : Kimberly Jensen

Publisher : University of Washington Press

Page : 362 pages

File Size : 20,72 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0295992247

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Esther Clayson Pohl Lovejoy, whose long life stretched from 1869 to 1967, challenged convention from the time she was a young girl. Her professional life began as one of Oregon's earliest women physicians, and her commitment to public health and medical relief took her into the international arena, where she was chair of the American Women's Hospitals after World War I and the first president of the Medical Women's International Association. Most disease, suffering, and death, she believed, were the result of wars and social and economic inequities, and she was determined to combat those conditions through organized action.



The Doctor-Activist

Author : Ellen L. Bassuk

Publisher :

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 15,71 MB

Release : 1996

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ISBN : 9780306451768

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Out in the Rural

Author : Thomas J. Ward (Jr.)

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 225 pages

File Size : 30,86 MB

Release : 2017

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0190624620

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Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword / by H. Jack GeigerIntroduction -- From South Africa to Mississippi -- Community Organizing -- Delivering Health Care -- Environmental Factors -- The Farm Co-op -- Conflict and Change -- Epilogue -- Bibliography



Being Heumann

Author : Judith Heumann

Publisher : Beacon Press

Page : 458 pages

File Size : 11,58 MB

Release : 2020-02-25

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 080701950X

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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year for Nonfiction "...an essential and engaging look at recent disability history."— Buzzfeed One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann’s lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society. Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy’s struggle for equality began early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a “fire hazard” to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher’s license because of her paralysis, Judy’s actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people. As a young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Francisco as a leader of the Section 504 Sit-In, the longest takeover of a governmental building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy successfully pressured the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled peoples’ rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann’s memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.



Serve God, Save the Planet

Author : J. Matthew Sleeth

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 259 pages

File Size : 47,15 MB

Release : 2007

Category : House & Home

ISBN : 0310275342

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J. Matthew Sleeth was living the American dream as a medical chief of staff---until the increasing number of chronic illnesses he was witnessing gave him a new environmental awareness. In this book, Sleeth shares his family's journey to simplicity, stronger relationships, and richer spiritual lives, and relates a prescription for sustainable living.



Seven

Author : Farzana Doctor

Publisher : Dundurn

Page : 361 pages

File Size : 11,77 MB

Release : 2020-09-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1459746414

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FINALIST FOR THE 2021 TRILLIUM AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE 2021 EVERGREEN AWARD • AN INDIGO BEST BOOK OF 2020 • A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST INDEPENDENT READ FOR FALL 2020 • AN APPLE BOOKS BEST BOOK OF 2020 • A CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN FICTION BOOK OF 2020 • A NOW MAGAZINE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2020 "Be prepared for this novel to stay with you for a long time, especially its ending."—GLOBE AND MAIL "[An] extraordinary book... packed with discovery and jarring emotional arcs."—TORONTO STAR "Penetrating and subtle ... [An] immersive, absorbing portrait."—EDEN ROBINSON "Explores with courage and storytelling finesse the harsh truths within the ideals of kinship and community." —DAVID CHARIANDY "An urgent and passionate read." —VIVEK SHRAYA "Visceral and emotional... a courageous feat."—QUILL & QUIRE (starred review) A brave, soulfully written feminist novel about inheritance and resistance that tests the balance between kinship and the fight against customs that harm us. When Sharifa accompanies her husband on a marriage-saving trip to India in 2016, she thinks that she’s going to research her great-great-grandfather, a wealthy business leader and philanthropist. What captures her imagination is not his rags-to-riches story, but the mystery of his four wives, missing from the family lore. She ends up excavating much more than she had imagined. Sharifa’s trip coincides with a time of unrest within her insular and conservative religious community, and there is no escaping its politics. A group of feminists is speaking out against khatna, an age-old ritual they insist is female genital cutting. Sharifa’s two favourite cousins are on opposite sides of the debate and she seeks a middle ground. As the issue heats up, Sharifa discovers an unexpected truth and is forced to take a position.



Thyra J. Edwards

Author : Gregg Andrews

Publisher : University of Missouri Press

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 20,87 MB

Release : 2011-06-14

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0826219128

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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "The Spirit of Aframerican Womanhood"--1. Texas Roots of Rebellion under the Chinaberry Tree -- 2. Social Work and Racial Uplift in Gary, Indiana -- 3. Getting a Labor Education in Illinois, New York, and Denmark -- 4. Chain Smoking and Thinking "Black" from Red Square to Nazi Germany -- 5. Building a Popular Front in Chicago -- 6. Conducting Educational Travel Seminars to Europe -- 7. With Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War -- 8. With Health Problems and Spanish Loyalist Refugees in Mexico -- 9. The Double V Years and Marriage in New York City -- 10. The Final Years in Italy -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index



Gesundheit!

Author : Patch Adams

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 332 pages

File Size : 18,34 MB

Release : 1998-10-01

Category : Health & Fitness

ISBN : 1620551128

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The inspiring and hilarious story of Patch Adams's quest to bring free health care to the world and to transform the way doctors practice medicine • Tells the story of Patch Adam's lifetime quest to transform the health care system • Released as a film from Universal Pictures, starring Robin Williams Meet Patch Adams, M.D., a social revolutionary who has devoted his career to giving away health care. Adams is the founder of the Gesundheit Institute, a home-based medical practice that has treated more than 15,000 people for free, and that is now building a full-scale hospital that will be open to anyone in the world free of charge. Ambitious? Yes. Impossible? Not for those who know and work with Patch. Whether it means putting on a red clown nose for sick children or taking a disturbed patient outside to roll down a hill with him, Adams does whatever is necessary to help heal. In his frequent lectures at medical schools and international conferences, Adams's irrepressible energy cuts through the businesslike facade of the medical industry to address the caring relationship between doctor and patient that is at the heart of true medicine. All author royalties are used to fund The Gesundheit Institute, a 40-bed free hospital in West Virginia. Adams's positive vision and plan for the future is an inspiration for those concerned with the inaccessibility of affordable, quality health care. Today's high-tech medicine has become too costly, impersonal, and grim. In his frequent lectures to colleges, churches, community groups, medical schools, and conferences, Patch shows how healing can be a loving, creative, humorous human exchange--not a business transaction.



Physicians at War

Author : Fritz Allhoff

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 271 pages

File Size : 18,48 MB

Release : 2008-03-22

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 140206912X

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Recently, there has been a tremendous interest in the ethical issues that confront physicians in times of war, as well as some of the uses of physicians during wars. This book presents a theoretical apparatus which underpins those debates, namely by casting physicians as being faced with dual-loyalties during times of war. While this theoretical apparatus has been developed in other contexts, it has not been specifically brought to bear on the ethical conflicts that wars bring.