Rising from the Flames: The Experience of the Severly Burned

by Albert Howard Carter III

Book Overview

Although medical advances have remarkably increased the survival rate of the severely burned, such patients still encounter physical and psychological pain and disability, disfigurement, and social rejection.

Rising from the Flames examines the experience of the severely burned as survivors confront it, not just as a medical event but as a human ordeal involving social, cultural, psychological, and medical trauma. It discusses the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812215176
• ISBN13: 9780812215175
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"