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On an island off the coast of Massachusetts, six miles across the cobalt blue Waters of the Nantucket Sound, there is a place where hope flourishes. The island is Martha’s Vineyard. The place is Camp Jabberwocky, a sleepover summer camp for people with a variety of disabilities.

This audiobook features an exclusive Q&A between reader Chipo Chung and author, Dorcas Gwata 'Fascinating . . . While the rest of us are worrying about it, Dorcas Gwata is doing something about it' - Wendy Joseph, author of Unlawful Killings Through the lives of ten young people an award-winning...

An urgent and deeply affecting account of America's failure to provide meaningful support to its chronically ill and disabled citizens and our resulting reliance on the unpaid caregiving labor of spouses and intimate partners. When twenty-seven-year-old Laura Mauldin moved to New York for...

The funny, touching and entertaining story of how Jo Hardy, the star of BBC2’s Young Vets, gets to grips with animals big and small, friendly and not-at-all-happy, on the road to becoming a fully qualified vet. ‘Stand well clear. Keep your eyes on them. Oh, and make sure you have insurance...

Sara Mayfield was born into Alabama's governing elite in 1905 and grew up in a social circle that included Zelda Sayre, Sara Haardt, and Tallulah and Eugenia Bankhead. After winning a Goucher College short story contest judged by H. L. Mencken, Mayfield became friends with Mencken and his circle, then visited with Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and hobnobbed with the literati while traveling in Europe after a failed marriage. Back in Tuscaloosa after the war, however, she became increasingly paranoid about perceived conspiracies arrayed against her.

Neste premiado livro de estreia, a aclamada jornalista Rachel Aviv levanta questões fundamentais sobre como nos entendemos em momentos de crise e angústia. Movida por um profundo senso de empatia e por sua própria experiência de viver em uma ala hospitalar aos seis anos de idade, diagnosticada com anorexia, ela recupera a trajetória de pessoas que se depararam com os limites das explicações psiquiátricas sobre quem são.

»Salam alaikum, Erwin! Wie kann ich helfen?«. Rashid Hamid führt seinen Hamburger Pflegedienst mit viel Einsatz und Liebe. Die Begegnungen mit den alten Menschen zaubern ihm ein Lächeln ins Gesicht, auch wenn der Pflege-Alltag manchmal mühsam sein kann. In seinem Hörbuch erzählt Rashid, warum er sich für diesen Job entschieden hat − und es immer wieder tun würde. Er gibt den vielen Pfleger:innen mit Migrationshintergund und ihren oft deutschen Klient:innen ein Gesicht. Alle lieben Rashid, und Rashid liebt seinen Job.

Komm mit, ich nehme Dich mit in meine Depression. Ich zeige Dir, wie das ist, wie sich das anfühlt, was sie angerichtet hat in meinem Leben. Ich zeige Dir die besonderen Momente, die Wende- und Scheidepunkte, wie meine Depression entstanden ist und wo sie eine andere Richtung nahm. Ich bin depressiv seit 52 Jahren, immer wieder anders, immer wieder neu. Glaube mir, ich habe zu erzählen. Schonungslos führe ich Dich in meine emotionalen Abgründe, zeige Dir, dass Depression nichts unberührt lässt und alles durchdringt, jeden Tag und jede Nacht.

10万人に１人の稀少がん・ジストを患いながらも、”心の免疫力が上がる言葉”を支えに生きる緩和ケア医・大橋洋平先生。

ＮＨＫ、朝日新聞等メディアの注目を集める「がんを生きる緩和ケア医」大橋洋平先生の著書第三弾。長引くコロナ禍、免疫系統に打撃を受けるがん患者にとっては厳しい日々が続く。

Paracelsus, Heilkundler und Naturphilosoph: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Author and illustrator Hey Gee tells the story of a real-life Mayo Clinic patient. As an aspiring high-school track athlete takes on race after race, she must learn to manage the challenges of sickle-cell anemia. She'll need to work together with her health-care team and her family, along with techniques for self-care, to find success on and off the track.

This is Mary Lasker's story. Americans now recognize the National Institutes of Health as the national treasure that it is, but when she began her crusade, her first challenge was persuading elected leaders and federal officials that the health of the American public was even their problem. Armed with the knowledge she was right, and supported by her husband, the famed ad man Albert Lasker, and close friend Florence Mahoney, she built a coalition of noted physicians and scientists that fundamentally changed how we think about medical research funding.

Vale a pena. Viver é realmente uma experiência linda, mágica e rara. Marina sempre foi uma mulher forte e saudável. Nada em seu histórico familiar ou hábitos a preparou para encarar o maior e mais aterrorizante desafio de sua vida: o câncer. Simplesmente aconteceu. Mas Marina também sempre foi uma mulher brilhante, e percebeu que, embora a doença fizesse parte dela, não era ela. Ela era muito mais.

「白血病で予後が良くない９歳の女の子に、“わたし、死んじゃうの？”と聞かれたら、何と答えますか？」

Maj. Gen. Gregg Martin cut a striking figure in the Army: athletic, quick witted, devout, and studious, he was a natural leader. Thanks to his engineering and leadership knowhow, Martin was chosen to lead the thousands of combat engineers who paved the way for 100,000 Army troops to battle their way to Baghdad in 2003. Only years later would he learn how the pressure of organizing dozens of simultaneous life-or-death missions each day altered the biochemistry of his brain. Bipolar General offers a candid account of Martin's personal journey with undiagnosed mental illness.

This memoir tells the story of Georgia physician Dhaval Desai's life during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a new father, frontline physician and healthcare leader on the brink of burnout, and a member of an ethnic minority in the South, his tale is marked by chaotic intersections. His commitment to fostering and advocating for humanity in medicine inspired him to write a personal narrative of his experience as a frontline physician during the COVID-19 pandemic, "Burning Out on the COVID Front Lines: A Doctor’s Memoir of Fatherhood, Race and Perseverance in the Pandemic".

Britney Daniels is a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian from a working-class background. For the last five years, she has been working as an emergency-room nurse. She began Journal of a Black Queer Nurse as a personal diary, a tool to heal from the day-to-day traumas of seeing too much and caring too much. Hilarious, gut-wrenching, and infuriating by turns, these stories are told from the perspective of a deeply empathetic, no-nonsense young nurse, who highlights the way race, inequality, and a profit-driven healthcare system make the hospital a place where systemic racism is lived.

Odjet jako chirurg na misi s Lékaři bez hranic neznamená jen vracet vyhřezlá střeva zpátky do břicha. I přes každodenní hřmění střelby, všudypřítomnou hrozbu cholery, operace těžce postřelených dětí a nedostatek spánku se Tomáš Šebek na své jemenské misi snaží pozorovat běžný život, který se skrývá pod tímto válečným závojem. Jak se žije muslimským lékařkám? Jaké lidské příběhy se ukrývají za tvářemi pacientů a co o nás prozrazují naše jména? Vedle odpovědí na tyto otázky je tato audiokniha také zamyšlením nad posláním lékaře, nad odlišností kultur a nad tím, co všechny bez rozdílu, pacienty i lékaře, spojuje.

Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age seven, Wendy Louise Novak had to create her own path in a world defined by stigma, struggle, and hope. With little public awareness of her condition, Wendy's only role model was her fiercely independent father, who grew up in an era when diabetes meant a difficult, and often short, life. He taught her to "follow the rules" and stay self-reliant. Today, Wendy is the face of the Wendy Novak Diabetes Institute, which supports groundbreaking clinical services, education, and research to ensure young people with diabetes can thrive.