The Renewal of Generosity
Subtitle: Illness, Medicine, and How to Live
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780226260150
Subjects: Medicine: General Issues; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Nursing - Nurse & Patient; Physician & Patient; Medical / Physician & Patient; General; Empathy; Ethics, Medical; Generosity; Physician and patient; Physician-Patient Relations
First sentence: A DOCTOR recalls a haunting incident from his early professional life in his story "The Tunnel."
Description: 'The Renewal of Generosity' presents stories that show demoralized medicine being tranformed through caring relationships. In the age of technology dominance, Frank shows how generosity is being rediscovered through dialogue between physician and patient.