![]() ![]() The theory part is much longer and quite thorough: Lewis tries to think through the questions which have superficial, well-known answers and comes quite far (at least for all I know). ![]() At least the book offers two honest attempts at, first, understanding the "theory" of pain from a Christian (protestant) viewpoint and, second, going through the "practice". They also might feel better after reading the second part but only because it should remind one "you are not the only one going through this". More likely, they will feel guilty after reading the first part and because of that may become more accepting to the idea of pain. I am not sure this book would be very helpful to most people grieving, at least not in the sense that they would feel somewhat relieved. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg, co-author of The Problem of Democracy, takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing-if occasionally entertaining-poor white trash. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Custer’s Trials “ White Trash will change the way we think about our past and present.” “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” - O, The Oprah Magazine ![]() It deals in the truths that matter.”-Dwight Garner, The New York Times “This estimable book rides into the summer doldrums like rural electrification. ![]() The New York Times Bestseller, with a new preface from the author ![]() ![]() ![]() It was not a caring instinct that drove her - “I have no turn for benevolencies,” she wrote to her brother Henry in 1855 - or a curious one, to advance medical science beyond leeches, mercury and prayer. Nor is the answer easy to detect in her personality. ![]() ![]() No single story convincingly explains why a young woman “enthralled by literature and philosophy” should plummet into the earthy business of bodies. The most narratively appealing is 17-year-old Elizabeth’s experience caring for her father on his deathbed, in which “it is tempting to discern … the germ of her medical future.” Tempting, but too easy. ![]() Nimura considers and discards a couple of possible origin stories. In her richly detailed and propulsive biography of Elizabeth and her sister Emily Blackwell, Janice P. At all levels of society, doctors had little more to rely on than “purgatives, laudanum and lancets.” What kind of woman would fight to join their ranks? In wealthy homes, physicians coasted on charisma and connections as much as skill. Germ theory was more than a decade away, and in hospitals for the poor, surgeons in blood-caked aprons went from handling corpses to delivering babies without washing their hands. In 1849, when Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman doctor in America, the medical profession was neither well established nor well respected nor well paid. THE DOCTORS BLACKWELL How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine By Janice P. ![]() |