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Anatomy of an Illness

Anatomy of an Illness

Information about the author

Norman Cousins is senior lecturer at the School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, and consulting editor of Man and Medicine which is published at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.  For almost all of his professional life, Norman Cousins has been affiliated with Saturday Review.  He became its editor in 1940, a position he held for more than thirty years.  He is presently its editorial chairman.  Mr. Cousins is the author of eleven books, including Dr. Schweitzer of Lambarene, The Celebration of Life, Present Tense, In Place of Folly, The good Inheritance, and Modern Man Is Obsolete.

Main Points of the Book

Anatomy of an Illness is written in light of a serious illness a patient was diagnosed with.  Through trust, hope, humor and many months of treatment the patient was cured.  It is a piece published to share the gruesome and enlightening points of the doctor/ patient relationship the two main characters obtained.  The author offers the idea of placebo healing as opposed to the prescription method, which he believes is overrated.  The book is used in over two dozen medical schools for instructional purposes,

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