Poetry of Healing

A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire

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by Rafael Campo

W. W. Norton and Co.

Due/Published June 1998, 192 pages, paper

ISBN 0393317714

New in paper. (S98)

Rafael Campo is both a physician and an award-winning poet. In this, his first book of prose, Campo writes of the healing power of speech, of touch, of empathy and the erotic, of love. He writes not just of his attempts to heal but also of how his patients have healed him, and of how doctors may often forget to include caring among their medicines for curing. Throughout this beautiful book, he uncovers the truths of his own passions and fears, of the flaws in health care, and of his education and life as a primary-care doctor, poet, Cuban, and gay man within the medical establishment. Did you see Campo's article in the New York Times Sunday Magazine? Don't forget his latest book of poetry, What the Body Told.