Kimberly R Myers
Biographic Data
| ID | 7519302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimberly R Myers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimberly R |
| FAMILY NAME | Myers |
| SIGNATURE | MYERS K R |
| AFFILIATIONS | K.R. Myers is professor of humanities and medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania; telephone: (717) 531-8778 ; email: [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Routledge Handbook of Health and Media, by Lester D. Friedman and Therese Jones. New York
Commentary on “Imagist Poetry and Clinical Medicine
That is the poet’s business. Not to talk in vague categories but to write particularly, as a physician works, upon a patient, upon the things before him, in the particular to discover the universal. 1 Physician William Carlos Williams had a busy day job as a general practitioner and pediatrician, but it was what he did at night and between patients that made him famous: he wrote poetry. Among general readers, Williams (quoted above) is perhaps be…
W. B. Yeats's Steinach Operation, Hinduism, and the Severed-Head Plays of 1934–1935
In the mid-1930s, William Butler Yeats wrote two plays that feature a poet figure who confronts his muse and is subsequently beheaded. In The King of the Great Clock Tower and A Full Moon in March , Yeats symbolically processes a complex nexus of concerns in his life at the time: long-standing writer's block, his immersion in Hindu thought, and the sexual impotence that contributed to his decision to undergo the often misunderstood genito-urinary…
Treatments
Reviewed by: Treatments: Languages, Politics, and the Culture of Illness Kimberly R. Myers (bio) Lisa Diedrich. Treatments: Languages, Politics, and the Culture of Illness. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. 224 pp. Paperback, $22.50. When I was asked to review Lisa Diedrich’s Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness, I was delighted. I had just reviewed an essay by Diedrich for another journal for which I am co-g…
Coming Out
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Coming Out
Treatments
Reviewed by: Treatments: Languages, Politics, and the Culture of Illness Kimberly R. Myers (bio) Lisa Diedrich. Treatments: Languages, Politics, and the Culture of Illness. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. 224 pp. Paperback, $22.50. When I was asked to review Lisa Diedrich’s Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness, I was delighted. I had just reviewed an essay by Diedrich for another journal for which I am co-g…
W. B. Yeats's Steinach Operation, Hinduism, and the Severed-Head Plays of 1934–1935
In the mid-1930s, William Butler Yeats wrote two plays that feature a poet figure who confronts his muse and is subsequently beheaded. In The King of the Great Clock Tower and A Full Moon in March , Yeats symbolically processes a complex nexus of concerns in his life at the time: long-standing writer's block, his immersion in Hindu thought, and the sexual impotence that contributed to his decision to undergo the often misunderstood genito-urinary…
Commentary on “Imagist Poetry and Clinical Medicine
That is the poet’s business. Not to talk in vague categories but to write particularly, as a physician works, upon a patient, upon the things before him, in the particular to discover the universal. 1 Physician William Carlos Williams had a busy day job as a general practitioner and pediatrician, but it was what he did at night and between patients that made him famous: he wrote poetry. Among general readers, Williams (quoted above) is perhaps be…
Routledge Handbook of Health and Media, by Lester D. Friedman and Therese Jones. New York
Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)