Bibliograph

On learning to heal, or, what medicine doesn't know, Ed Cohen

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On learning to heal, or, what medicine doesn't know, Ed Cohen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

On learning to heal

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1302578638

Responsibility statement

Ed Cohen

Series statement

Critical global health: evidence, efficacy, ethnography

Sub title

or, what medicine doesn't know

Summary

"At thirteen, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease-a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties. At his diagnosis, his doctors told him that the best he could hope for was periods of remission. Unfortunately, they never mentioned healing as a possibility. In On Learning to Heal, Cohen draws on fifty years of living with Crohn's to consider how Western medicine's turn from an "art of healing" toward a "science of medicine" deeply affects both medical practitioners and their patients. He demonstrates that although medicine can now offer many seemingly miraculous therapies, it is not and has never been the only way to enhance healing. Exploring his own path to healing, he argues that learning to heal requires us to desire and value healing as a vital possibility. With this book, Cohen advocates reviving healing's role for all those whose lives are touched by illness"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Healing as Desire and Value -- Healing Tendencies -- We Are More Complicated Than We Know -- We Are More Imaginative Than We Think -- When We Learn to Heal, It Matters -- Healing with COVID, or Why Medicine Is Not Enough

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What medicine doesn't know

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