Rising from the Flames
The Experience of the Severely Burned
$45.54
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
29 March 1998
Summary
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 h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812215175 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812215176 |
| Author: | Albert Howard Carter III, Jane Arbuckle Petro |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Imprint: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 29 March 1998 |
| Weight: | 417g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
Critics Review
“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
Albert Howard Carter III
By Albert Howard Carter III and Jane Arbuckle Petro
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