On Learning to Heal
or, What Medicine Doesn't Know
1st Edition
Published on 18. November 2022
240 pages
978-1-4780-2394-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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01/2023
Duke University Press
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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.
Content
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
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
