Meaning and Medicine
Worth buying if: You enjoy general-interest books that connect medicine with questions of meaning.
Skip it if: You need a recent account shaped by current medical research or contemporary healthcare debates.
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Summary
A 304-page general-interest book by Larry Dossey, published in 1992, Meaning and Medicine centers on the connection between meaning and medicine.
Why this book now
Its 1992 perspective offers a chance to revisit how Larry Dossey framed meaning within medicine before today’s renewed interest in whole-person questions.
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- You enjoy general-interest books that connect medicine with questions of meaning.
- You want to read Larry Dossey’s 1992 perspective on the relationship between meaning and medicine.
- You need a recent account shaped by current medical research or contemporary healthcare debates.
- You are looking for a novel, a short book, or a narrowly technical medical text.
- You only want something with very current references and examples.
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Exact edition: Edition shown · ISBN-13 9780553370812
Worth buying if: You enjoy general-interest books that connect medicine with questions of meaning.
Skip it if: You need a recent account shaped by current medical research or contemporary healthcare debates.
Check Amazon for the current price and availability of this exact edition.
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Reading commitment
Balanced Moderate time
At 304 pages, this is a substantial but manageable nonfiction reading project.
What stands out here
This Bantam Dell Pub Group edition is the 1992 publication of Larry Dossey’s Meaning and Medicine.
Best way to approach it
Approach it as a sustained general-interest inquiry into the ideas named by its title, rather than as a current clinical manual.
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9780553370812
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