Cohen Ed Cohen

On Learning to Heal (eBook, PDF)

or, What Medicine Doesn''t Know

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 "e;art of healing"e; toward a "e;science of medicine"e; 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478023944
• Artikelnr.: 72421472

Autorenporträt

Ed Cohen

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Invoking Healing  xi
Acknowledgments  xv
A Note on Shit  xvii
Overture. Healing as Desire and Value  1
1. Healing Tendencies  17
2. We Are More Complicated Than We Know  49
3. We Are More Imaginative Than We Think  81
4. When We Learn to Heal, It Matters  121
Coda: Healing with COVID, or Why Medicine is Not Enough  161
Notes  163
Bibliography  195
Index  211