The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness - Hardcover

Groopman, Jerome

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375506381 ISBN 13: 9780375506383

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2003

Synopsis

The author of The Measure of Our Days explores the diverse ways in which hope and other positive emotions influence the healing process, drawing on thirty years of medical practice and a variety of real-life experiences to analyze the biology of hope, as well as its benefits and limits. 50,000 first printing.

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Praise for The Anatomy of Hope

"Provocative and important . . . a book about healing and life . . . Groopman . . . writes with a clear, crisp, unpretentious prose that keeps the reader interested and the pages turning. Like Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande, he is a master storyteller who uses the examples of real patients to explain the mysteries of medicine."
-Boston Sunday Globe

"The Anatomy of Hope sings with compassion and honesty."
-ANITA DIAMANT

"Here is a man who has seen many deaths and many miracles and who writes about them with vigor and faith in the power of individuals to change their fates and in some power larger than all of us as well."
-Los Angeles Times Book Review

"This book is the guide and the promise that all of us-patients and doctors alike-have been seeking, in the quest for hope amid the trials and fears of illness."
-SHERWIN B. NULAND, M.D.

"The kind of hope-the kind of love-that shines through this book's pages . . . will undoubtedly save many other patients and their families, in body and in spirit."
-The Washington Post Book World

About the Author:

Jerome Groopman, M.D., holds the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and is the chief of experimental medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. His research has focused on the basic mechanisms of blood disease, cancer, and AIDS. He is a staff writer in medicine and biology for The New Yorker and is the author of two popular books, The Measure of Our Days and Second Opinions, which were the inspiration for the television series Gideon’s Crossing. In 2000 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He lives with his wife and three children in Brookline, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0375506381
• ISBN 13: 9780375506383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248