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The Patient's Voice: Experiences of Illness
The Patient's Voice Experiences of Illness The Patient's Voice: Experiences of Illness introduces 16 contemporary autobiographical accounts of psychiatric and somatic illness to students in medicine, nursing and allied health professions. The accounts, written expressley for this book, are of children's and adult's experience of illness and spiritual distress and the ways in which the i... more »ndividuals express their views of compassionate care. They portray the personal transformations which have evolved out of their suffering. The cover art was painted expressley for this book by Dino Cavalleri of Paris and Sennevoy le Haut. The book and Teacher's Manual have been translated into Japanese by Kyoko Nakamura. The Japanese title is Kanjo no Koe Byouki no Taiken. Chikuma Gakugei Bunko Humanities Press, Tokyo, 2001.(ISBN 4480086234) Professor Nakamura wrote in her afterward "If Japanese readers find in these varied accounts the key to understanding others, and if that finding can be utilized in the fields of medicine, nursing, and education, it would be the greatest pleasure for me having introduced and translated the book."« less