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Title: The Anatomy of Hope : How People Prevail in the Face of Illness by JEROME GROOPMAN ISBN: 0-375-50638-1 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 23 December, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Seeking Hope
Comment: Dr. Groopman has written a compelling account of the nature of "Hope" and it's relation to illness. He relates a series of well told stories about patients facing life threatening illnesses. He openly discusses his own revelations as a doctor in dealing with these patients. The stories are both moving and informative. He also journeys into his own patienthood and his battle with chronic pain. This a very enjoyable read. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wise and Well-written
Comment: In an easy to read style, this book offers wise insight into the powerful connections between mind and body. It is hopeful and inspiring without ever being simplistic or sappy. The writer, a physician, displays unusual insight and humility. Human stories are well balanced with science, and there is respect for the spirit. This is not a simplistic self-help book. I have been asked a lot about who should read this book. Someone who is suffering with a life-threatening illness, and is feeling hopeless, may feel misunderstood and negated if you give this book as a gift. Better will be for you to read it and see if you can gather some ideas on how to be most helpful. People who have chronic pain may find this book a very welcome read.I cannot imagine many readers who wouldn't find this book thought provoking and hope affirming.
Rating: 1
Summary: Two Books Too Many
Comment: "The Measure of Our Days", Jerome Groopman's first book, was refreshing in that it encouraged greater dialogue about physician empathy, "good" patient care not always being just medical, and introduced us to some interesting patients and their stories. His second book,"Second Opinions", suffered severely from a paucity of new ideas and/or material, and was a monomaniacal lecture in book form about how superior Groopman's medical judgment is to that of some of his colleagues. Having read "The Anatomy of Hope" I know that this will be my last purchase of his writings, because a more gooey and feel-good self-help book is rarely published by someone with Groopman's credentials. It contained a lot of pious-sounding theological pep talks that rang strangely hollow to this reader, and was clearly written as a money-maker rather than because Dr. Groopman had anything new, emotionally authentic, or philosophically original to bring to the table in the discourse regarding the body-soul dicotomy. He should have stopped while he was ahead. If I were one of his patients, I would have recoiled in horror at his painting of himself as a latter-day St. Jerome. Ugh!
If you like good writing and reflection upon ethical dilemmas in medicine and in life, you'll enjoy lining your bird cage with this book. If you like syrupy sermons about looking on the sunny side of life, by all means order it, and enjoy.
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Title: The Measure of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness by Jerome Groopman ISBN: 014026972X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine by Jerome, M.D. Groopman ISBN: 0140298622 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Blindsided : Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir by Richard Cohen ISBN: 0060014091 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 30 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Doctoring: The Nature of Primary Care Medicine by Eric J. Cassell ISBN: 0195113233 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Measure of Our Days: New Beginnings at Life's End by Jerome Groopman ISBN: 0670875708 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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