After retiring from a distinguished federal career, Danielle Spencer expected her next chapter to be peaceful. Hoping to ease into retirement, she accepts a position with Washington, D.C.'s public school system, believing she can use her leadership experience to help students succeed.Instead, she walks into a world she never imagined.What begins as a new career quickly becomes an eye-opening journey through a workplace where fear replaces collaboration, loyalty is demanded ...

Bridging memoir with key concepts in narratology, philosophy and history of medicine, and disability studies, this book identifies and names the phenomenon of metagnosis: the experience of learning in adulthood of a longstanding condition. It can occur when the condition has remained undetected (e.g. colorblindness) and/or when the diagnostic categories themselves have shifted (e.g. ADHD). More broadly, it can occur with unexpected revelations bearing upon selfhood, such as surpri...

The Fall 2019 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Fall 2019 Issue, edited by Editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph, features new longform work by Andrea Barrett, Kiley Reid, L...

Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine expresses the collective experience and discoveries of the originators of the field. Arising at Columbia University in 2000 from roots in the humanities and patient-centered care, narrative medicine draws patients, doctors, nurses, therapists, and health activists toge...

Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”Available now are nine new Ploughshares Solos, longform stories and essays also collected in our annual fall issue. Edited by Editor-in-chief Lad...

After retiring from a successful federal career, Danielle Spencer expected a quieter life. Instead, accepting a position with Washington, D.C.'s public school system led her into a workplace marked by fear, dysfunction, retaliation, and unsafe conditions. As she witnesses leadership failures, bureaucratic obstacles, and a culture that discourages employees from speaking out, she begins documenting what she experiences. Through Danielle's eyes, readers are taken inside an education system w...

After retiring from a successful federal career, Danielle Spencer expected a quieter life. Instead, accepting a position with Washington, D.C.'s public school system led her into a workplace marked by fear, dysfunction, retaliation, and unsafe conditions. As she witnesses leadership failures, bureaucratic obstacles, and a culture that discourages employees from speaking out, she begins documenting what she experiences. Through Danielle's eyes, readers are taken inside an education system w...

After retiring from a successful federal career, Danielle Spencer expected a quieter life. Instead, accepting a position with Washington, D.C.'s public school system led her into a workplace marked by fear, dysfunction, retaliation, and unsafe conditions. As she witnesses leadership failures, bureaucratic obstacles, and a culture that discourages employees from speaking out, she begins documenting what she experiences. Through Danielle's eyes, readers are taken inside an education system w...

After retiring from a successful federal career, Danielle Spencer expected a quieter life. Instead, accepting a position with Washington, D.C.'s public school system led her into a workplace marked by fear, dysfunction, retaliation, and unsafe conditions. As she witnesses leadership failures, bureaucratic obstacles, and a culture that discourages employees from speaking out, she begins documenting what she experiences. Through Danielle's eyes, readers are taken inside an education system w...

Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine, primary care medicine, narratology, and the study of doctor-patient relationships, narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness. By placing events in temporal order, with beg...

A readable discussion of the key ideas of child development and theory, including how children acquire language, the meaning of intelligence and creativity, as well as how best to teach children to read and write.

How Doctors Think defines the nature and importance of clinical judgment. Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science but rather an interpretive practice that relies on clinical reasoning. A physician looks at the patient's history along with the presenting physical signs and symptoms and juxtaposes these with clinical experience and empirical studies to construct a tentative account of the illness. How Doctors Think is ...