On Learning to Heal: Or, What Medicine Doesn't Know - Couverture souple

Cohen, Ed

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1478019328 ISBN 13 : 9781478019329

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2023

Synopsis

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 would be periods of remission. Unfortunately, doctors 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, medicine 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ed Cohen is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University and author of A Body Worth Defending, also published by Duke University Press. He hosts a therapeutic practice for people interested in healing: healingcounsel.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1478019328
• ISBN 13: 9781478019329
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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