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Illness: the cry for flesh
Illness: the cry for flesh

Illness: the cry for flesh

Illness: the cry for flesh

Professor Jane Macnaughton of Durham University visited us in 2017. She introduced this excellent book, authored by her project collaborator to us.

Professor Havi Carel is a philosopher of medicine specialised in phenomenology of illness. Argued in this little book (Routledge, 2013), she notes that it should be essential reading for medical and nursing students — not to mention doctors and all those working in health-care. It presents a uniquely authentic account of the lived experience of illness. It is a philosophical and insightful book about what it is to be human and how to live. Anbody who cares about who they are and how they live ought to read it.