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Foreword Anne Hunsaker Hawkins xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction Kimberly R. Myers 1
Brancardier Seamus Heaney 11
Illness and Identity: Dynamics of Self and Family 13
Well Children, Sick Parents
Manzanita Sharon D. King 15
Some Questions to Consider Patricia O'Hara 26
The Book of Ruth: A Pelvic Space Ellin Ronee Pollachek 34
Breast Disease and Screening: My Mother's Story, My Story Moya Lynn Alfonso 47
Ill Children, Spouses, and Extended Family
Unintended Research: A Sociologist's Experience with Illness and Death Michael Rowe 55
Luck or Miracle: My Battle with Cancer Michael J. Meyer 67
Over and Under and Back from Whence You Came Michael Verde 73
Dual Identity: Family Member / Healthcare Professional
Reflections of a Chaplain and a Daughter Tami L. Higdon 90
Stay of Execution Susanna Black 101
Concealing Illness, Performing Health 109
Passing, The Closet, and Coming Out
Coming Out with My Academic Depression Barbara J. Jago 110
Invisible Disorder:Passing as an Academic Hilary Clark 123
The Manic-Depressive Professor Rebecca Hogan 131
Sexuality, Body Image and Gender
The First Girl to Land on the Moon Barbara J. Campbell 137
A Certain Remoteness: Telling Vaginismus Fulvia Dunham 147
Breast Art Lisa Katz 158
Agency and Advocacy 163
Invalids Rendered Invalid
When Pain Is the Other Dancer: Living with Migraine Althea E. Rhodes 165
Pain in the Neck Susannah B. Mintz 171
My Father's Illness: A Case Study in Ageism Henry Abramovitch 179
The Prolapse Rae Luckie 189
On Falling Up Evelyn Scott 198
Double Trouble Richard A. Ingram 209
Self-Advocacy and Political Activism
Climbing Mountains Michael Edmond Donnelly 220
A Calculus of Advocacy: A Patient, Positionality, and Chronic Illness Jane E. Schultz 226
White Coat Syndrome Rebecca A. Pope 254
AIDS in Academe: A Story of Silence, Struggle and Success Chris Bell 263
Disabled Identity in Academia Christopher R. Smit 271
Language and Healing
Losing My Dirty Mind Andrea T. Wagner 280
Making the Impossible Possible: Imagining Alternative Experiences of Pain Elena Levy-Navarro 288
Of Blood and Guts Kimberly R. Myers 297
Scheherazade Syndrome: Illness and Storytelling Kristin Lindgren 308
The Treatment Roxana Robinson 321
Panic Ellen Samuels 330
Medicine at the Margins 337
The Indeterminacy of Illness
"Speak, Mild Fran": Panic Disorder and My Perverse Devotion to a Life of Public Speaking Bonnie Blackwell 339
DSM-IV 300.30 Mikita Brottman 347
Mirror Image Emma Burns 356
Liminal Spaces: Race, Ethnicity and Culture
A Brief Portrait of an Autistic as a Young Man Ruth Elizabeth Burks 364
Her Reckoning: A Young Interdisciplinary Academic Dissects the Exact Nature of Her Disease Wendy Marie Thompson 373
The Interstices of Illness: The Elasticity of Diagnostic Time Tracy Curtis 381
More Than a Case Ting Man Tsao 392
Medical Magic and Medicinal Cure: Manipulating Meanings of Disease Laurence Marshall Carucci 402
Time Made Strange
Seeing Mt. Fuji Maggie Griffin Taylor 414
Being Ill / Being Well: Reflections on an Illness Susan Dick 421
Bone Scan / On the Lake Ellen Goldsmith 436
Shaman Lynda Hall 438
32 y/o Single Female with Stage IV Breast Cancer Laurie Rosenblatt( Juanita Jones) 444
Epilogue: Seasons Abraham Verghese 451
Contributors 453
Index of Illnesses 467
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David Ruiz
reviewed Illness in the Academy: A Collection of Pathographies by Academics on June 30, 2012
Illness in the Academy: A Collection of Pathographies by Academics
Everyone needs to be their own advocate for their health care. A good first step is to understand how doctors think, and that's what this book attempts to do. The book generally focuses on the problem of incorrect diagnoses. Following each example of incorrect diagnosis there is an analysis of the reasons why the errors were made. Then the authors suggests ways doctors and patients can avoid similar problems in the future. There are numerous ideas and suggestions for patients to use in improving their chances of being correctly diagnosed.
Generally speaking my reaction to most of the examples in the book was that the docors are human, and they can slip up occasionally. The book suggests that doctors are correct about 85% of the time. (Incidentally, that's about the same rate of accuracy as modern weather forecasting.) What I was most alarmed to learn about was how inaccurate radiologist and pathologists were. After hearing the accuracy rates for those professions, I think it to be unwise to allow a serious operation be performed based upon the test results reported by a single radiologist or pathologists.
The author is a doctor himself. One of the most interesting examples in the book was his own personal story of finding a solution for pain in his right hand. I lost count, but I think he visited about six different specialists trying to find a solution to the problem. I noticed that his wife, who's also a doctor, insisted on coming along to some of the visits with doctors to make sure her husband would ask the corrrect questions. He used his medical connections to get in to see what are considered to be the top experts in the nation, and even he was unhappy with the way he was treated. If he wasn't happy, imagine what happens to the rest of us. In the end he had a surgery done that gave him 80% full use of his hand, a bit short of perfection. However, if he had gone forward with about 4 of the 6 proposed operations, the result would have either been no improvement or maybe ending up in a worse condition.
The following is the review from my PageADay Book Lover's calendar:
Nobody's perfect, not even your doctor. But most doctors get most diagnoses right most of the time. Jerome Groopman, Harvard Professor of Medicine and essayist for The New Yorker, examines those times when things go wrong. The questions Groopman asks are crucial: What assumptions do doctors make about patients that lead to misdiagnoses? And what can you, the patient, do to help your doctor think clearly and avoid fatal jumps to conclusions? This is one book that can definitely improve your health.
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