{"product_id":"the-illness-narratives-suffering-healing-and-the-human-condition","title":"The Illness Narratives: Suffering  Healing  And The Human Condition","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom one of Americas 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 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  there was The Illness Narratives. It remains today a prescient and passionate case for bridging the gap between patient and practitioner.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946128896053,"sku":"ByrdShop_0465032044","price":50.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780465032044.jpg?v=1769925408","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-illness-narratives-suffering-healing-and-the-human-condition","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}