The Sacrament of Healing. Soul and Body in Medicine

The wonders of modern medicine amaze the imagination, and medical scientists devote themselves entirely to their difficult work, saving lives, healing wounds, and curing bodily ailments every day. And yet, in exploring and correcting human bodies, medicine loses its soul of healing. Doctors burn out and leave, patients complain of rudeness and indifference, and hospitals increasingly resemble soulless factories for repairing bodies. Thomas Moore dedicates this book to the soul of medicine and offers simple methods that allow both the doctor and the patient to make the hospital, where we are born, suffer, heal, and die — a sanctuary of care and wisdom, as well as a meeting place for one human being with another.