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"In this provocative book, New Yorker staff writer and Harvard Medical School professor Groopman explores the way hope affects one's capacity to cope with serious illness. Drawing on his 30-year career in hematology and oncology, he presents stories based on his patients and his own debilitating back injury. Sharing his own blunders and successes, he underscores the power doctors and other health care providers have to instill or kill hope. He also explains that hope can be fostered without glossing over medical realities: "Hope... does not cast a veil over perception and thought. In this way, it is different from blind optimism: It brings reality into sharp focus." In the final chapters of the book, he examines the existing science behind the mind-body connection by reviewing, for example, remarkable studies on the placebo effect. By the end of the book, Groopman successfully convinces that hope can offer not only solace but strength to those living with medical uncertainty.". -Publisher's Weekly
All Ages
Adulthood (22+)
English
0375506381
Jerome Groopman
2003 Random House
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