One Breath Apart: Facing Dissection

Author:   Sandra Bertman
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415786140


Pages:   98
Publication Date:   23 May 2019
Format:   Hardback
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One Breath Apart: Facing Dissection


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Helps you explore and share your personal responses to dissection. This book shows the anatomy cadaver as a bridge spanning the chasm that lies between ignorance, darkness, and death on one side and knowledge, health, and life on the other.

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Author:   Sandra Bertman
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9780415786140


ISBN 10:   0415786142
Pages:   98
Publication Date:   23 May 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Foreword, Jack Coulehan, MD Prologue: Sharing a UMASS Medical School Tradition Dissection and Reflection: Variations of the Module —Anticipating Dissection: Template —Inaugural Session: Facing Dissection —History of Dissection —Relevance to Patient Care —Anatomical Gift Program —Meeting the Cadaver — Coping Styles (Illustrated Lecture Presentations) —Anatomy Lesson in Art and Dance —The Art and Science of Medicine —Michelangelo’s Morgue Experiences — Student Service of Thanksgiving for Body Donors — A Graduation Tradition Medical Students Meet Cadavers —The room was both a morgue and a classroom —I’m more uncomfortable having to draw than having to dissect —Words cannot describe what it is like —Our bodies are our cheat sheets —I like the Buddhist notion of death and the body —I wonder what her life was like —Cut me I will not bleed —The power of habit —I’ll never forget Doc, as we called him Epilogue: Reflections and Connections —The UMass Community cares for its dead —Memorial Service —Student Eulogies and Family Members’ Responses —Coda: The Web of Life References Acknowledgments

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Sandra L. Bertman, founding Director of the Medical Humanities Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, is a clinician who has pioneered the use of the arts and humanities to help healthcare professionals understand the psychology of loss and the existential and spiritual concerns of patients, family members, and themselves.

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