Rising From the Flames - The Experience of the Severely Burned

Informationen zum Autor Albert Howard Carter III and Jane Arbuckle Petro Klappentext "The book should be required reading for every clinician, medical student, social worker, and therapist who cares for injured patients, and especially for those who care for burned patients. It also should be made widely available in bookstores for anyone who has empathy for the ill and infirm or curiosity about burns."--Journal of the American Medical Association Although medical advances have remarkably increased the survival rate of the severely burned, such patients still encounter physical and psychological pain and disability, disfigurement, and social rejection. Rising from the Flames examines the experience of the severely burned as survivors confront it, not just as a medical event but as a human ordeal involving social, cultural, psychological, and medical trauma. It discusses the causes of burns, the physiology of injury and healing, the forms of isolation burn patients endure, and the cultural meaning attached to burns and burned persons.

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• Authors: Albert Howard Carter, Albert Howard III Carter, III Albert Howard Carter, Albert Howard Carter III, Albert Howard Petro Carter III, Albert Howard Carter Iii, Albert Howard Carter Petro Iii, Jane A. Petro, Jane Arbuckle Petro
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.1998
• EAN: 9780812215175
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1517-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General