{"product_id":"the-renewal-of-generosity-illness-medicine-and-how-to-live-9780226260174","title":"The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine, and How to Live","description":"Through engaging narratives of illness, medical work, and nursing in which people choose to act in ways that affirm their humanity, \u003ci\u003eThe Renewal of Generosity\u003c\/i\u003e depicts the transformation of demoralized medicine into caring relationships through generosity--generosity towards both others and oneself. Arthur Frank demonstrates how generosity is renewed through dialogue, and he also distinguishes authentic dialogue from mere talk. For Frank, medicine is the face-to-face encounter that comes before and after pharmaceuticals, surgeries, and diagnostics. His is a book for people on both sides of the medical encounter who want to offer more to those they meet, and who want a more enriching experience for themselves. A work of enormous grace and compassion, \u003ci\u003eThe Renewal of Generosity\u003c\/i\u003e expands our vision of illness and healing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This reflection is starkly honest and never pedantic or condescending. . . . Through a rich telling of stories and reflection on them, Frank conducts a complex symphony of ideas about medicine with writing from a wide range of authors that models how readers might enact and experience the complex, subtle meaning of generosity and gratitude in their own practices. . . . Physicians should rush to read this book, and I hope that patients will join them.\"--George J. Agich, \u003ci\u003eNew England Journal of Medicine \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arthur W. Frank\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.82h x 5.34w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226260174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArthur W. Frank \u003c\/b\u003eis professor of sociology at the University of Calgary. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAt the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wounded Storyteller\u003c\/i\u003e, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44907023630451,"sku":"9780226260174","price":44.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_667446ae-5bc1-4784-a568-5594ea23469c.jpg?v=1777482401","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-renewal-of-generosity-illness-medicine-and-how-to-live-9780226260174","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}