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Low-Fat Love Stories

07/24/2024
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Title: Low-Fat Love Stories. 

Author: Patricia Leavy & Victoria Scotti. 

Publication info: Rotterdam, The Netherlands : Brill. 2017. eBook. 

Location: Academic Search Complete. 

Description: American Fiction Awards 2018 - award-winning finalist in the category short stories! Low-Fat Love Stories is a collection of short stories and visual portraits based on interview research with women about a dissatisfying relationship with a romantic partner or relative, or their body image. The stories focus on settling in relationships, the gap between fantasies and realities, relationship patterns, divorce, abuse, childhood pain, spirituality, feeling like a fraud, growing older, and daily struggles looking in the mirror. Once upon a time and happily ever after take on new meaning as the women's stories reveal the underside of fairytales and toxic popular culture. Written in the first-person with language taken directly from each woman's interview, the stories are raw, visceral, and inspirational. As a collection, the stories and art set you on an emotional rollercoaster and illustrate the different forms “low-fat love” may take, and the quest for self-worth in the context of popular culture that tells women they are never enough. The authors developed an original method of “textual visual snapshots” for this book. Low-Fat Love Stories can be used in a range of courses in art education, gender/women's studies, popular culture, psychology, relational communication, sociology and social work; or as an exemplar in research or qualitative methods, narrative inquiry, arts-based research or creative writing courses; or it can be read entirely for pleasure by individuals or in book clubs.

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Sadie Davenport
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Happy birthday to Dr. Leopold Auenbrugger! 

In the mid-1700s, in a hospital in Vienna, Austria, Auenbrugger found that by placing his ear to his patient's chest and lightly tapping, he could tell the density of organs within the body. By sensing if an organ or region feels hollow or dense, a doctor can detect blood clots, air pockets, masses, and other irregular conditions within the body. 

It wasn't until Dr. Rene Laennec developed the stethoscope in 1812 that other doctors used percussion to detect ailments in the body. 

Learn more about the medical applications of percussion in the video and links below! 

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