Title: Anatomy of an illness as perceived by the patient: reflections on healing and regeneration
Description: The story of a recovery from a crippling disease and the physician patient partnership that beat the odds by using the patient's own capabilities.
Subjects: American Authors, Biography, Collagen diseases, Collagen diseases -- personal narratives, Healing, Holistic Health, Holistic medicine, Laughter, Medicine, Patients, Philosophy, Philosophy, medical, Physiological aspects, Physiological aspects of Laughter, Will, Biographies, Médecine, Psychophysiology, Personal Narratives, Pelvi-spondylite rhumatismale, Esprit et corps, Volonté, Écrivains américains, Collagène, Maladie du, Volition, Medical Philosophy, Philosophie, Récits personnels, Mind and body, Mental Healing, Diseases, Free will and determinism, Health, Wills, Norman Cousins, Regeneration, Quality of Health Care, Patient Compliance, Attitude to Health, Patient Acceptance of Health Care, Hospitals, Physiology
Places: United States
People: Norman Cousins