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

By Arthur Frank

Contemporary health care has reached extraordinary technical sophistication, but at the same time, many patients are unhappy with the way they are treated, and doctors feel estranged from the calling... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226260151
• ISBN13: 9780226260150
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

A Must-Read if You are Human

Essential reading, not only for healthcare professionals and their patients and caregivers, but for anyone who is interested in how to have deep and authentic dialogue with other human beings. Frank, (whose memoir of his own illness, At the Will of the Body, is also excellent) is merciless in his scrutiny of accounts by self-proclaimed "heroic" doctors vs. the stories of doctors, nurses and others who learn, through painful experience, how to relate to and truly speak with and learn from their patients. He writes of both the generosity of the ill, as well as physicians. He concludes, "Generosity is giving ourself to the suffering visible in the face and giving ourselves, no less, to joy."