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How We Experience Illness
William Morrow
February 2007
On Sale: January 30, 2007
240 pages
ISBN: 0060847956
EAN: 9780060847951
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
When someone is diagnosed with a serious illness, he or she
is taking the first step on an overwhelmingly challenging
and confusing journey. For many, it is as if they are
traveling to someplace entirely new and they must go there
alone, with only faded directions back to their old lives.
Often, even their loved ones can only guess at what they
must be experiencing. The Lonely Patient is a clear-eyed and deeply affecting
examination of the inner life of those grappling with
illness. It looks into the chasm between the well and the
sick by exploring and giving voice to the often
unarticulated aspects of illness, offering people with
illness—and their family and friends—a frank and intelligent
discussion of how to negotiate the psychological and
emotional aspects of what they are going through. Michael Stein, M.D., a professor of medicine at Brown
University Medical School as well as an acclaimed novelist,
uses the stories of a number of patients, including that of
his beloved, terminally ill brother-in-law, Richard, to
consider the personal narrative of sickness. What sets
Stein's book apart is his intimate scrutiny of the
uniqueness of each patient's experience, which he breaks
into four parts—betrayal, terror, loss, and loneliness—and
renders each in such a way that he opens a dialogue about
our expectations of health and, after its shocking
disappearance, of illness. Beautifully written and keenly insightful, The Lonely
Patient is a valuable book for patients and their
caregivers—as well as a probing inquiry into a universal
experience.
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