The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition
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Book Overview
From one of America's most celebrated psychiatrists, the book that has taught generations of healers why healing the sick is about more than just diagnosing their illness. Modern medicine treats sick patients like broken machines -- figure out what is physically wrong, fix it, and send the patient on their way. But humans are not machines. When we are ill, we experience our illness: we become scared, distressed, tired, weary. Our illnesses are not just biological conditions, but human ones. It was Arthur Kleinman, a Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist, who saw this truth when most of his fellow doctors did not. Based on decades of clinical experience studying and treating chronic illness, The Illness Narratives makes a case for interpreting the illness experience of patients as a core feature of doctoring. Before Being Mortal, there was The Illness Narratives. It remains today a prescient and passionate case for bridging the gap between patient and practitioner.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0465032044
ISBN13:9780465032044
Release Date:October 1989
Publisher:Basic Books
Length:284 Pages
Weight:0.68 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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Case studies on how to deal with chronic pain and suffering.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
Harvard professor Arthur Kleinman has prepared and presented an excellent collection of case studies and analysis on the topic of suffering and dealing with chronic pain. This book is perfect for a physician who is trying to understand his patients or a patient who is trying to deal with a life of pain. Either way the book is a fascinating study of how to live life.
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