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A Wonderful Stroke of Luck

From Occupational Therapist to Patient and Beyond

By: Janet R. Douglas

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A Wonderful Stroke of Luck

From Occupational Therapist to Patient and Beyond

By: Janet R. Douglas

When an occupational therapist suffers a massive stroke while attending a wedding in her native England, she can’t believe it. Janet R. Douglas emerges from a coma weeks later at a Chicago hospital where she once worked. Her left side is totally paralyzed, her eyesight impaired, her memory and identity lost. Trapped in the present, she finds herself talking in German even though she has seldom spoken the language since high school. With no understanding of the severity of her problems, she resists therapy, thinking she doesn’t need it. Despite all odds, she returns to her high-powered job only to find herself cast adrift by a corporate reorganization. With time on her hands, she carries out her own research to find out how damage to one specific part of the brain affects behavior. From the perspective of both therapist and patient, Douglas explains the impact of stroke, how it makes the simplest tasks difficult, and how the visible disabilities it causes are just the tip of the iceberg. Join Douglas on a decade-long quest to recapture her identity so she can once again enjoy family, work, and travel in A Wonderful Stroke of Luck.

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300

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Archway Publishing

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ISBN 10

1480866024

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9781480866027

Prisons, Asylums, and the Public

Institutional Visiting in the Nineteenth Century

By: Janet Miron

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Prisons, Asylums, and the Public

Institutional Visiting in the Nineteenth Century

By: Janet Miron

The prisons and asylums of Canada and the United States were a popular destination for institutional tourists in the nineteenth-century. Thousands of visitors entered their walls, recording and describing the interiors, inmates, and therapeutic and reformative practices they encountered in letters, diaries, and articles. Surprisingly, the vast majority of these visitors were not members of the medical or legal elite but were ordinary people. Prisons, Asylums, and the Public argues that, rather than existing in isolation, these institutions were closely connected to the communities beyond their walls. Challenging traditional interpretations of public visiting, Janet Miron examines the implications and imperatives of visiting from the perspectives of officials, the public, and the institutionalized. Finding that institutions could be important centres of civic activity, self-edification, and 'scientific' study, Prisons, Asylums, and the Public sheds new light on popular nineteenth-century attitudes towards the insane and the criminal.

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265

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University of Toronto Press

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0802093663

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9780802093660

Gerontology

Perspectives and Issues, Third Edition

By: Janet May Wilmoth,Kenneth F. Ferraro

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Gerontology

Perspectives and Issues, Third Edition

By: Janet May Wilmoth,Kenneth F. Ferraro

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826102301

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9780826102300