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Book SynopsisThrough engaging narratives of illness, medical work, and nursing in which people choose to act in ways that affirm their humanity, this book depicts the transformation of demoralized medicine into caring relationships through generosity - generosity towards both others and oneself. It demonstrates how generosity is renewed through dialogue.
Trade Review"Frank's vision of how a lost sense of story could be restored to medicine is both lucid and profound.... In his new book, The Renewal of Generosity, he examines clinical situations in which health care workers who do bring a sense of narrative to bear have transformative effects." - Melanie Thernstrom, New York Times Magazine "This reflection is starkly honest and never pedantic or condescending.... Through a rich telling of stories and reflection on them, Frank conducts a complex symphony of ideas about medicine with writing from a wide range of authors that models how readers might enact and experience the complex, subtle meaning of generosity and gratitude in their own practices.... Physicians should rush to read this book, and I hope that patients will join them." - George J. Agich, New England Journal of Medicine"
