Bibliograph

The illness narratives, Suffering, healing, and the human condition., Arthur Kleinman

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The illness narratives, Suffering, healing, and the human condition., Arthur Kleinman

Language

eng

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Intended audience

1380, Lexile

Main title

The illness narratives

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Text Difficulty 11 - Text Difficulty 12

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Arthur Kleinman

Sub title

Suffering, healing, and the human condition.

Summary

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

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