Author: Joan Cassell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: surgeon, woman
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2000-10-16
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 0674004078
ISBN-13: 9780674004078

Surgery is the most martial and masculine of medical specialties. The combat with death is carried out in the operating room, where the intrepid surgeon challenges the forces of destruction and disease. What, then, if the surgeon is a woman? Anthropologist Joan Cassell enters this closely guarded arena to explore the work and lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man’s world. Cassell observed thirty-three surgeons in five North American cities over the course of three years. We follow these women through their grueling days: racing through corridors to make roun

Author: Joan Cassell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: surgeon, woman
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1998-06-15
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 067495467X
ISBN-13: 9780674954670

Anthropologist Joan Cassell enters the closely guarded surgeon’s arena to explore the work and lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man’s world. Cassell followed the daily lives of five women surgeons over the course of three years. The result is an insightful account of how being female influences the way the surgeon is perceived by colleagues, nurses, patients, superiors--and even by herself.

Author: Joan Cassell
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: field, children
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1994-02-22
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1566392063
ISBN-13: 9781566392068

The conditions under which knowledge is acquired help shape that knowledge. Yet, until quite recently, the conditions under which anthropologists observe and interact with members of other cultures were considered the stuff of memoirs, not science. Although many families have accompanied anthropologists to the field, few researchers have discussed this aspect of scientific life. This collection of narratives by anthropologists who brought children with them into the field combines personal drama, practical information, and advice with an examination of the way in which the presence of children

Author: Joan Cassell
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: care, intensive, death, life
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2005-03-30
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1592133363
ISBN-13: 9781592133369

Life and Death in Intensive Care offers a unique portrait of the surgical intensive care unit (SICU), the place in medical centers and hospitals where patients with the gravest medical conditions--from comas to terminal illness--are treated. Author Joan Cassell employs the concept of "moral economies" to explain the dilemmas that patients, families, and medical staff confront in treatment. Drawing upon her fieldwork conducted in both the United States and New Zealand, Cassell compares the moral outlooks and underlying principles of SICU nurses, interns, doctors, and surgeons. Using real life e

Author: Jay Cassell
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Keywords: stories, hunting, book, gigantic
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 160239301X
ISBN-13: 9781602393011

The ultimate gift book for the hunter—800 pages of adventure.This volume has something for everyone who hunts, be they rabbit hunters in the deep South, Cape buffalo hunters in the African bush, or white-tailed deer hunters in the woods of North America. Its selections celebrate hunting for big game, small game, waterfowl, upland birds, turkeys, African and Asian game, and much more. Readers will find many of their favorite writers represented here, along with authors who have penned inspired pieces that few have read, until now. The book has been put together in keeping with the spirit and

Author: Jay Cassell
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Keywords: firearms, reference, bestselling, world, bible, shooter
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2009-11-03
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1602398011
ISBN-13: 9781602398016

The ultimate annual reference book for firearm collectors and enthusiasts.Published annually for more than eighty years, with more than seven million copies sold worldwide, Shooter’s Bible is the most complete reference guide for new products, specifications, and up-to-date prices on thousands of firearms and related equipment. This new edition of Shooter’s Bible contains a series of informative feature articles by nationally recognized firearms experts writing on subjects ranging from hunting and shooting to firearms technology and history. The Shooter’s Bible contains up-to-date and co

Author: Eric J. Cassell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: medicine, goals, suffering, nature
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-03-25
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0195156161
ISBN-13: 9780195156164

This is a revised and expanded edtion of a classic in palliative medicine, originally published in 1991. With three added chapters and a new preface summarizing our progress in the area of pain management, this is a must-hve for those in palliative medicine and hospice care. The obligation of physicians to relieve human suffering stretches back into antiquity. But what exactly, is suffering? One patient with metastic cancer of the stomach, from which he knew he would shortly die, said he was not suffering. Another, someone who had been operated on for a mior problem--in little pain and not see