TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kleinman,Arthur
TI  - The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition 
SN  - 9781541647121
AV  - RC108.K57  
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - Chronic diseases
KW  - Psychological aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-300) and index
N2  - "Western 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 are not just biological conditions, but human ones. It was Arthur Kleinman, a Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist, who saw this truth when most of his fellow doctors did not. Based on decades of clinical experience studying and treating chronic illness, The Illness Narratives makes a case for interpreting the illness experience of patients as a core feature of doctoring. Before Being Mortal or The Body Keeps the Score, there was The Illness Narratives. It remains today a prescient and passionate case for bridging the gap between patient and practitioner"--
ER  -