The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human ConditionFrom 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. |
Contents
The Personal and Social Meanings of Illness | |
The Vulnerability of Pain and the Pain of Vulnerability | |
The Pain of Living | |
The Frustrations of Desire | |
Weakness and Exhaustion in the United States | |
Conflicting Explanatory Models in the Care of the Chronically | |
Coping with Chronic Illness | |
The Stigma and Shame of Illness | |
Factitious Illness | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition |
| Author | Arthur Kleinman |
| Publisher | Basic Books, 2020 |
| ISBN | 154167460X, 9781541674608 |
| Length | 336 pages |
| Subjects | › › Medical / Physician & Patient Medical / Psychiatry / General Psychology / Clinical Psychology Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Social Science / Disease & Health Issues |
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