Browsing by Subject "medicine"
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Altered States of Consciousness: Gender, Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse, and Gothic Literature
(2022-08-23)Gothic literature often depicts altered states, including sleep, dreams, nightmares, somnambulism, hypnotism, and mesmerism. This project considers the mind-body question in Gothic literature through a medical humanities ... -
The Life and Death of Paul Kalanithi: The Dilemma of Illness Identity in a Physician-Turned-Patient
(2018-08-31)After his diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer, Paul Kalanithi composed the memoir When Breath Becomes Air. Kalanithi’s background as a student of literature allows for a well-crafted illness narrative in which he examines ... -
Medical research at Dalhousie
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SHARING THE BURDEN OF SICKNESS: A HISTORY OF HEALING IN ACCRA, GOLD COAST, 1677 to 1957.
(2015-04-08)Over the past three hundred years, the healing culture of Accra has been characterized by therapeutic pluralism rather than by the dominance of one particular regime of healing. Five major therapeutic traditions developed, ...