Afflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice

by Nicole M. Piemonte

How medical education and practice can move beyond a narrow focus on biological intervention to recognize the lived experiences of illness, suffering, and death.

In Afflicted, Nicole Piemonte examines the preoccupation in medicine with cure over care, arguing that the traditional focus on biological intervention keeps medicine from addressing the complex realities of patient suffering. Although many have pointed to the lack...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262037394
• ISBN13: 9780262037396
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher