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The Soul of Care - The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor (Paperback)
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The Soul of Care - The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor (Paperback)
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Loot Price R420
Discovery Miles 4 200
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A moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an
expert physician became a family caregiver and learned why care is
so central to all our lives and yet is at risk in today's world.
When Dr. Arthur Kleinman, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and
social anthropologist, began caring for his wife, Joan, after she
was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, he found just
how far the act of caregiving extended beyond the boundaries of
medicine. In The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and
a Doctor, Kleinman delivers a deeply human and inspiring story of
his life in medicine and his marriage to Joan, and he describes the
practical, emotional and moral aspects of caretaking. He also
writes about the problems our society faces as medical technology
advances and the cost of health care soars but caring for patients
no longer seems important. Caregiving is long, hard, unglamorous
work--at moments joyous, more often tedious, sometimes agonizing,
but it is always rich in meaning. In the face of our current
political indifference and the challenge to the health care system,
he emphasizes how we must ask uncomfortable questions of ourselves,
and of our doctors. To give care, to be "present" for someone who
needs us, and to feel and show kindness are deep emotional and
moral experiences, enactments of our core values. The practice of
caregiving teaches us what is most important in life, and reveals
the very heart of what it is to be human.
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