The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition

by Arthur Kleinman

Book Overview

From one of America's most celebrated psychiatrists, the book that has taught generations of healers why healing the sick is about more than just diagnosing their illness.

Modern medicine treats sick patients like broken machines -- figure out what is physically wrong, fix it, and send the patient on their way. But humans are not machines. When we are ill, we experience our illness: we become scared, distressed, tired, weary. Our illnesses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465032044
• ISBN13: 9780465032044
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Case studies on how to deal with chronic pain and suffering.

Harvard professor Arthur Kleinman has prepared and presented an excellent collection of case studies and analysis on the topic of suffering and dealing with chronic pain. This book is perfect for a physician who is trying to understand his patients or a patient who is trying to deal with a life of pain. Either way the book is a fascinating study of how to live life.