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The Poetry of Healing
A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire
by Rafael Campo
ISBN: 0393040097
ISBN-13: 9780393040098
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
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."
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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."
-- Kirkus
"Campo's voice carries the traces of a host of healers, poets and prophets, a chorus whose members include Wallace Stevens and Mother Teresa, Richard Rodriguez and AIDS physician Abraham Verghese. Wherever his story takes him-to the bedside of a dying patient, absorbing a story that will change his life; or staring at a handprint on the ceiling of a New Orleans hotel room while having sex with a man describe only as Puerto Rican-he returns to the same questions: Who am I, and what am I doing here?...The power of a memoir has mainly to do with how well it illuminates the particulars of a still-unfinished life, and there are episodes in which 'The Poetry of Healing sines a clear, bright light on its subject.' " -- David L. Kirp
-- Nation
"THE POETRY OF HEALING the writing is intimate, confessional, and unashamedly honest....By the time I finished THE POETRY OF HEALING, I felt I had come to know Rafael Campo, and shared in insights of unusual intelligence and sensitivity."
-- Lancet
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published date: 1997
Size: 5.75 x 9 inches
Weight: 1.1 pounds
Pages: 270
Publisher's 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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THE POETRY OF HEALING. A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire
Campo, Rafael
New York, Norton, (1997). Cloth spine & boards, top edge stained else fine in d/w, pp. 270. ISBN 0-393-04009-7. The author's experiences of a doctor, poet, latino, and gay man within the US medical establishment. Keywords: medicine biography poetry ( more information) Offered by Serendipity Books (Australia)
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