{"product_id":"the-illness-narratives","title":"The Illness Narratives","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom one of America's most celebrated psychiatrists, the book that has taught generations of healers why healing the sick is about more than just diagnosing their illness.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eModern medicine treats sick patients like broken machines -- figure out what is physically wrong, fix it, and send the patient on their way. But humans are not machines. When we are ill, we experience our illness: we become scared, distressed, tired, weary. Our illnesses are not just biological conditions, but human ones. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was Arthur Kleinman, a Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist, who saw this truth when most of his fellow doctors did not. Based on decades of clinical experience studying and treating chronic illness, \u003ci\u003eThe Illness Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e makes a case for interpreting the illness experience of patients as a core feature of doctoring. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBefore \u003ci\u003eBeing Mortal\u003c\/i\u003e, there was \u003ci\u003eThe Illness Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e. It remains today a prescient and passionate case for bridging the gap between patient and practitioner. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50020534190330,"sku":"9781541647121","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/1253\/1962\/files\/imageloader_b556261e-b9b6-4d77-80f9-c29210177b69.jpg?v=1786136922","url":"https:\/\/mindsourcebooks.com\/products\/the-illness-narratives","provider":"Mind Source Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}