ANALYZING A MEMOIR OF DISABILITY: UTILIZING A GROUP WRITING ASSIGNMENT TO INCREASE APPLICABILITY AND COMPREHENSION OF COURSE MATERIAL

Analyzing a memoir of disability: Utilizing a group writing assignment to increase applicability and comprehension of course material

"Analyzing a Memoir of Disability" is a semester-long project that promotes learning about disability and culture through group reading and writing about a single memoir.Students in an Introduction to Rehabilitation and Human Services course completed a textual analysis by using a memoir Allergy Relief and course textbook to contextualize one anoth

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Managing Male Mammary Maladies

This review examines the symptoms, need for referral and management of the benign breast conditions which afflict males, together with the steps that are necessary to exclude or confirm male breast cancer.The most common complaint is gynaecomastia, either true or pseudo, and the majority of these cases need reassurance without over-investigation.Dr

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Humanism and Medicine: a forced misunderstanding?

We frequently see the terms medicine and humanism mixed up in different versions and meanings: "humanizing medicine", "humanities in medicine", "more human medicine" or "humanized medicine", among many others.However, although they have textual similarities, I believe that the proposal underlying most of these approaches is confusing, at best, or c

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