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: Paperback (January 10, 2008)
Categories: Physician & Patient
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Description
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











