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 the stories of ill people, doctors, and nurses who are restoring
generosity to medicine—generosity toward others and to themselves.
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 stories of ill people, doctors, and nurses who transform
demoralized medicine into caring relationships. He presents their
stories as a source of consolation for both ill and professional alike
and as an impetus to changing medical systems. Frank shows how
generosity is being renewed through dialogue that is more than the
exchange of information. Dialogue is an ethic and an ideal for people
on both sides of the medical encounter who want to offer more to those
they meet and who want their own lives enriched in the process. The
Renewal of Generosity views illness and medical work with grace and
compassion, making an invaluable contribution to expanding our vision
of suffering and healing.
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ISBN
9780226260259
Publisert
2018
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University of Chicago Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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