The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine, and How to Live - Rilegato

Frank, Arthur W.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0226260151 ISBN 13: 9780226260150

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2004

Riassunto

Contemporary health care often lacks generosity of spirit, even when treatment is most efficient. Too many patients are left unhappy with how they are treated, and too many medical professionals feel estranged from the calling that drew them to medicine. Arthur W. Frank tells the stories of ill people, doctors, and nurses who are restoring generosity to medicine--generosity toward others and to themselves.

The Renewal of Generosity evokes medicine as the face-to-face encounter that comes before and after diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, and surgeries. Frank calls upon the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin to reflect on stories of ill people, doctors, and nurses who transform demoralized medicine into caring relationships. He presents their stories as a source of consolation for both ill and professional alike and as an impetus to changing medical systems. Frank shows how generosity is being renewed through dialogue that is more than the exchange of information. Dialogue is an ethic and an ideal for people on both sides of the medical encounter who want to offer more to those they meet and who want their own lives enriched in the process.

The Renewal of Generosity views illness and medical work with grace and compassion, making an invaluable contribution to expanding our vision of suffering and healing.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Arthur W. Frank is a professor of sociology at the University of Calgary. He is the author ofAt the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness and The Wounded Storyteller, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.

Product Description:

Book by Frank Arthur W

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0226260151
• ISBN 13: 9780226260150
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 312