Contemporary health care often lacks generosity of spirit, even when treatment is most efficient. Too many patients are left unhappy with how they are treated, and too many medical professionals feel estranged from the calling that drew them to medicine. The book tells the stori…
Contemporary health care often lacks generosity of spirit, even when treatment is most efficient. Too many patients are left unhappy with how they are treated, and too many medical professionals feel estranged from the calling that drew them to medicine. Arthur W. Frank tells th…
"The Renewal of Generosity evokes medicine as the face-to-face encounter that comes before and after diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, and surgeries. Frank calls upon the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin to reflect on s…
'The Renewal of Generosity' presents stories that show demoralized medicine being tranformed through caring relationships. In the age of technology dominance, Frank shows how generosity is being rediscovered through dialogue between physician & patient.
A discussion of illness and how it impacts our lives, giving each of us the decision to change our way of living so that we might continue to survive.
A discussion of illness and how it impacts our lives, giving each of us the decision to change our way of living so that we might continue to survive.