The Poetry of Healing
A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire
by Rafael Campo
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As poet, physician, and human being, Rafael Campo's vocation, training, and humanity inform and shape his every encounter. As a gay man, a Latino and a Catholic, his encounters are freighted with complex emotional baggage, and it is to his credit and his reader's edification that he denies none of these elements in his struggle to provide an honest account of his relationship with a gay patient and his own "education in empathy, identity, and desire."
Editions of The Poetry of Healing
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher W W Norton & Co Inc |
Date 1997 |
Price £2.02 |
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Publisher Notes
The healing powers of speech, of touch, of empathy, and the erotic, of love itself--these are some of the themes of Rafael Campo's deeply humanistic work, as he writes not just of his attempts to heal but also of how how patients have healed him, and of how often doctors may forget to include caring among their medicines for curing.
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"Graceful, insightful, often disturbing essays on the healing art by a doctor-poet who daringly reveals his own vulnerabilities and longings."
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