|
|
Product Description
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
Western 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 or The Body Keeps the Score, there was The Illness Narratives. It remains today a prescient and passionate case for bridging the gap between patient and practitioner.
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 or The Body Keeps the Score, there was The Illness Narratives. It remains today a prescient and passionate case for bridging the gap between patient and practitioner.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An Exploration of the Borderland Between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (FSG Classics) by Anne Fadiman (2012-04-24)
- The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine
- Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction (California Series in Public Anthropology)
- What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life amidst Uncertainty and Danger
- Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness
- The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics, Second Edition
- The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor
- Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
- Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health (California Series in Public Anthropology)
*If this is not the "The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link
.
Details were last updated on Sep 21, 2024 12:24 +08.
