The Compassion Project
A case for hope and humankindness from the town that beat loneliness
$34.99
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2020
Summary
‘A wonderful book’ - Dr. Rangan Chatterjee
‘Highly convincing’ - Daily Express
‘Pioneering’ - The Telegraph
‘The strength of the book lies in its description of how community life can have a transformative effect on individuals’ - British Journal of General Practice
Across the country, general hospital admissions are on the rise. But in a small town in rural England, thanks to the simple introduction of kindness …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781783253364 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1783253363 |
| Author: | Julian Abel, Lindsay Clarke |
| Publisher: | Octopus Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Aster |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2020 |
| Weight: | 460g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 158mm x 28mm |
About The Author
Julian Abel
Dr. Julian Abel is a recently retired consultant in palliative care. He worked for two and a half years as joint-leader of the roll-out of the Frome project with Dr. Helen Kingston, the town’s lead GP, and is currently leading the implementation of the Frome Model in Wales. He is Vice-President of Public Health Palliative Care International, and a recognized expert on Compassionate Communities who has made presentations on the Frome model in Europe, the USA, and Australasia. He publishes regularly in peer-reviewed medical journals.
Lindsay Clarke is a Whitbread Award-winning novelist and widely translated freelance writer living in Frome. He has been Writer-in-Residence and Associate Lecturer on the MA Creative Writing Course at Cardiff University, Resident Scholar at Schumacher College, and is a long time Creative Consultant to the educational work of the Pushkin Trust in N. Ireland.
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