The Lonely Patient

How We Experience Illness

By Michael Stein
(William Morrow, Hardcover, 9780060847951, 240pp.)

Publication Date: January 11, 2007

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback

Categories: Physician & Patient

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Filling a vital need, this groundbreaking book examines and illuminates the emotional terrain of illness.



Praise For The Lonely Patient

"The indispensable book for patients and the patients' families. Poetic, profound, original."
-Peter D. Kramer, bestelling author of Listening to Prozac and Against Depression

"No other writer has captured the essential truths about illness with as much clarity."
-Annie Dillard, author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"[A] big-hearted doctor."
-Slate

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