This thesis is a creative project focusing on an illness within my family. In August of 2009, my father became sick with septic shock and survived. When first developing this project, I wanted an answer. I wanted to know what saved my dad from septic shock. This collection of essays was my attempt at answering that question. Within my essays, I examined the power of prayer, community, relationships and medicine within the experience to try and determine what allowed him to survive. Interviews with doctors, nurses, friends and family, personal experiences, and research all gave me insight when searching for an answer to this question. However, in the end I found that science and spirituality merge within the illness experience and both play ...
This thesis aimed primarily to describe my experience of dying. A second consideration was to descri...
Purpose: This article aims to investigate how a severely ill patient experiences health and disease,...
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2018This is a series of reflections on pain, meaning ma...
This thesis / dissertation was completed and submitted at Nipissing University, and is made freely a...
This Practice as Research PhD submission consists of a full-length memoir, A Year to Find My Father,...
In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. It is all too common that people m...
Many families have experienced the pain of living with a family member who has a neurological illne...
This creative thesis comprises a memoir and an exegesis exploring the writing process. The memoir is...
This issue of the Journal brings together a number of important articles on illness, crisis, and los...
Health is much more than the absence of illness; it is rather a “high level wellness” and a life wit...
In our ‘Spirituality and Living’ strand, Beth Crisp offers an account of her experience ...
This collection of three interconnected personal essays draws from the genres of memoir and biograph...
This article describes a collaborative writing project involving narratives of health and caregiving...
The thesis consists of two parts. The first, a novel entitled The Practice of Goodness, is the ficti...
The essays compiled in this thesis seek to explore the complexity of faith and family, while attempt...
This thesis aimed primarily to describe my experience of dying. A second consideration was to descri...
Purpose: This article aims to investigate how a severely ill patient experiences health and disease,...
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2018This is a series of reflections on pain, meaning ma...
This thesis / dissertation was completed and submitted at Nipissing University, and is made freely a...
This Practice as Research PhD submission consists of a full-length memoir, A Year to Find My Father,...
In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. It is all too common that people m...
Many families have experienced the pain of living with a family member who has a neurological illne...
This creative thesis comprises a memoir and an exegesis exploring the writing process. The memoir is...
This issue of the Journal brings together a number of important articles on illness, crisis, and los...
Health is much more than the absence of illness; it is rather a “high level wellness” and a life wit...
In our ‘Spirituality and Living’ strand, Beth Crisp offers an account of her experience ...
This collection of three interconnected personal essays draws from the genres of memoir and biograph...
This article describes a collaborative writing project involving narratives of health and caregiving...
The thesis consists of two parts. The first, a novel entitled The Practice of Goodness, is the ficti...
The essays compiled in this thesis seek to explore the complexity of faith and family, while attempt...
This thesis aimed primarily to describe my experience of dying. A second consideration was to descri...
Purpose: This article aims to investigate how a severely ill patient experiences health and disease,...
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2018This is a series of reflections on pain, meaning ma...