Presenting the evidence-based knowledge in the area of transcultural care, this book is designed to meet the needs of health and social care practitioners who must change their practices to comply with national policies and the expectations of a multicultural public. It deals with culture generic issues, and examines some culture specific issues.

Product Description: Poetry. IRREGULAR NUMBERS OF BEASTS AND BIRDS is a collection of portraits, odes, and ruminations about life's major and minor disasters and recoveries. In vivid, unsentimental prose, Helman draws individual resonance from universal themes, and a sense of shared humanity that is drawn from the infinitesimally specific...read more

Product Description: Frankenstein. Werewolves. Dracula. These images aren't just imaginary creatures -- they're also powerful symbols of the body. The body can be thought of as a machine made up of parts like Frankenstein's monster, or as a creature ruled by animalistic urges, or as an entity that's vulnerable to infection from a diseased fiend...read more

Product Description: Helman, Cecil. The Other Half of the Dream. Poetry. Prose Poetry. The Other Half of the Dream is a collection of prose poems that carry the reader into a parallel world of dreamlike possibilities. It's a surreal world of humor, absurdity and paranoia...read more

An anthology of classic writing and short stories about doctors, patients, illness and health that illuminates the relationships between doctors and patients in the past and today, this volume features writings by world-famous authors, many of whom were also physicians.