The Illness Narratives
Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition
$39.05
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
23 February 2021
Summary
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 experienc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781541647121 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1541647122 |
| Author: | Arthur Kleinman |
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Imprint: | Basic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 23 February 2021 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 126mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Arthur Kleinman
Arthur Kleinman is professor of medical anthropology in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is also the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. A member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kleinman is the author of numerous books, including The Soul of Care, Patients and Healers, and What Really Matters.
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