Icarus Plummeting (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | David Zigmond | knygos.lt

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Why do we suffer? And how do we heal?

How much of healthcare lies beyond procedural and readily-defined fixes? And what is this vast but more elusive hinterland?

Such questions are vital to understanding how we may best engage with one another's ill-fate, vulnerabilities and our inevitable transience. How this is done very much reflects the culture of the time: all our desires, delusions, efficiencies, fears and follies. Patterns of healthcare reflect not just biomedical objective facts: they tell us quite as much about our shared yet individual humanity.

Here is an unusual and highly readable exploration of these issues- an anthology of essays sourced from a frontline medical practitioner's notebooks as he experienced his work changing over several decades. Lively vignettes capture the more intimate experiences of healthcare encounters and the enduring residues of meaning; perspectives varifocus between the personal, the professional and the cultural.

This books Leitmotif? Medicine's undoubted modern bioengineering triumphs are often at the expense of our personal ecology- sharper and accelerating treatments displace and neglect our care; commodification is easier than comfort; and technical definition eclipses personal understanding. The price we pay for this loss of balance is heavy and wide, yet- like our industrialised environmental damage- its gathering momentum is insidiously treacherous.

Yet, as the stories here show, hope lies in reclaiming the centrality of personal relationships and understandings for our healthcare.