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Maya Ishida is no stranger to sorrow. Torn from her artist father in her native Japan, raised by her cold, ambitious mother in Minneapolis, she has finally put together a life with few disruptions: a safe marriage and a quiet life weaving clothes in a country studio. The past is no more than a story she vaguely remembers; the present is a gray landscape of solitary pleasures and modest expectations. After her father dies, Maya is pulled back into the memory of their parting. In his many stories of Orpheus and Eurydice and of the tennyo, a mythic Japanese figure, he had taught her that love means making the sacrifice of letting go. And so she had walked away from him without looking back. Twe...
Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice. In Health Humanities Reader, editors Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman have assembled fifty-four leading scholars, educators, artists, and clinicians to survey the rich body of work that has already emerged from the field—and to imagine fresh approaches to the health humanities in t...
Johann Jörg Riegel [George Rigel] (1718-1798) was born at Becherbach, a village near Kirn on the Nahe River, Germany, the son of Hans Henrich and Engela Caterina Buch Riegel. He immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1741 and settled in Nockamixon Township, Bucks County. He and his wife, Elizabeth, had a least eight children. He is buried in Nockamixon Township. His son, John Riegel [later Riggle] (1783-1847), and his wife, Sarah Shelter, had ten children, 1807-1828. The family lived at Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, until 1820 when they moved to Allegheny (now Gilpin) Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. John and Sarah Riggle are buried at Forks-Zion Lutheran Church, Armstrong County. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Texas, California and elsewhere.
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A revision and reordering, with new entries added, of the material in the thirty vols. comprising the various subsets designated "series" published under the collective title : Great lives from history, 1987-1995.