Anatomy of an illness as perceived by the patient: reflections on healing and regeneration

By Norman Cousins

Subjects: Holistic Health, Attitude to Health, Physiological aspects, Biography, Health, Écrivains américains, Patients, American Authors, Hospitals, Volition, Biographies, Mental Healing, Collagen diseases, Collagène, Maladie du, Free will and determinism, Holistic medicine, Collagen Diseases, Collagen diseases -- personal narratives, Quality of Health Care, Norman Cousins, Volonté, Patient Acceptance of Health Care, Personal Narratives, Wills, Médecine, Diseases, Esprit et corps, Pelvi-spondylite rhumatismale, Medical Philosophy, Psychophysiology, Philosophy, medical, Will, Patient Compliance, Récits personnels, Healing, Mind and body, Regeneration, Medicine, Personal narratives, Philosophie, Philosophy, Laughter, Physiological aspects of Laughter

Description: The story of a recovery from a crippling disease and the physician patient partnership that beat the odds by using the patient's own capabilities.