Albert Howard III Carter

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 causes of burns, the physiology of injury and healing, the forms of isolation burn patients endure, and the cultural meaning attached to burns and burned persons.

Our skin protects us, it defines us. By consuming a person's skin, fire devours both shield and identity, leaving tremendous challenges to burn workers, and of course, to patients and their families. Rising from the Flames describes and interprets the difficult world of the severly burned and the long road to recovery that each must travel.… (mehr)