The Poetry of Healing
Subtitle: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire
By: Rafael Campo.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; W.W. Norton
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Campo, Rafael; Physicians -- United States -- Biography; Hispanic American physicians -- United States -- Biography; Poets, American -- Biography; Gay men -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The healing powers of speech, of touch, of empathy and the erotic, of love itself - these are some of the themes of Rafael Campo's deeply humanistic work, as he writes not just of his attempts to heal, but of how his patients have healed him." "Throughout, he uncovers the truths of his own passions and fears, of the tragic flaws in health care, and of his education and life as primary-care doctor, poet, Latino, and gay man within the medical establishment."--BOOK JACKET.