Following criticisms of the traditionally polarized view of understanding suffering through either medicine or social justice, Lowe makes a compelling argument for how the medical humanities can help to go beyond the traditional biographical and epistemic breaks to see into the nature and properties of suffering and what is at stake. Lowe demonstrates through analysis of major healthcare workforce issues and incidence of burnout how key policies and practices influence healthcare education and experiences of both patients and health professionals. By including first person narratives from health professionals as a tool and resource, she illustrates how dominant ideas about the self enter practice as a refusal of suffering. Demonstrating the relationship between personal experience, theory and research, Lowe argues for a pedagogy of suffering that shows how the moral anguish implicit in suffering is an ethical response of the emergent self. This is an important read for all those interested in medical humanities, health professional education, person-centred care and the sociology of health and illness.

Amid the English Civil War, the daughter of a royal courtier escapes her forced betrothal and takes refuge in the Jewish Quarter of Amsterdam during the Golden Age when Dutch Masters painted, merchants grew rich trading in exotic luxuries, and modern medicine was born. Along the way, Susanna Worthington must risk taking help from the mysterious Captain David Winn, despite prophetic dreams that he will kill her some day.

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