101 Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy with Diabetes or The Burden of Sympathy

101 Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy with Diabetes

Author: Patricia Bazel Geil

The newest installment in the American Diabetes Association's bestselling 101 Tips series helps women with diabetes cope with pregnancy using a quick, easy-to-read question-&-answer format. 101 Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy with Diabetes offers tips on topics such as prepregnancy; nutrition; managing medication; managing diabetes during pregnancy; making it through labor; postpartum; and much more.

Patti B. Geil, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A., C.D.E. and Laura B. Hieronymous, R.N., M.S.Ed., C.P.T., C.D.E. have many years of professional and personal experience with diabetes and pregnancy. They have collaborated on several articles and public presentations on the topic of diabetes and pregnancy.

Patti Geil has written several other books for the American Diabetes Association.

New interesting textbook: Europe the State and Globalisation or Buying for Business

The Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope with Mental Illness

Author: David Allen Karp

In this vivid and thoughtful study, David Karp chronicles the experiences of the family members of the mentally ill, and how they draw "boundaries of sympathy" to avoid being engulfed by the day-to-day suffering of a loved one.
Working from sixty extensive interviews, the author reveals striking similarities in the experiences of caregivers: the feelings of shame, fear, guilt and powerlessness in the face of a socially stigmatized illness; the frustration of navigating the complex network of bureaucracies that govern the mental health system; and most of all, the difficulty negotiating an "appropriate" level of involvement with the mentally ill loved one while maintaining enough distance for personal health. Throughout, Karp sensitively explores the overarching question of how people strike equilibrium between reason and emotion, between head and heart, when caring for a catastrophically ill person. The book concludes with a critical look at what it means to be a moral and caring person at the turn of the century in America, when powerful cultural messages spell out two contradictory imperatives: pursue personal fulfillment at any cost and care for the family at any cost.
An insightful, deeply caring look at mental illness and at the larger picture of contemporary values, The Burden of Sympathy is required reading for caregivers of all kinds, and for anyone seeking broader understanding of human responsibility in the postmodern world.