On Learning to Heal - Ed Cohen

On Learning to Heal

or, What Medicine Doesn't Know

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2023
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1932-9 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
Ed Cohen draws on his experience living with Crohn’s disease—a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him—to explore how modern Western medicine’s turn from an “art of healing” toward a “science of medicine” impacts all whose lives are touched by illness.
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 “art of healing” toward a “science of medicine” 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.

Ed Cohen is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University and author of A Body Worth Defending, also published by Duke University Press. He hosts a therapeutic practice for people interested in healing: healingcounsel.com.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 340 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-4780-1932-8 / 1478019328
ISBN-13 978-1-4780-1932-9 / 9781478019329
Zustand Neuware
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