At thirteen, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohn\'s disease--a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties.
With this book, Cohen advocates reviving healing\'s role for all those whose lives are touched by illness..
Exploring his own path to healing, he argues that Learning to heal requires us to desire and value healing as a vital possibility.
He demonstrates that although Medicine can now offer many seemingly miraculous therapies, Medicine is not and has never been the only way to enhance healing.
In On Learning to Heal , Cohen draws on fifty years of living with Crohn\'s to consider how Western medicine\'s turn from an art of healing toward a science of Medicine deeply affects both medical practitioners and their patients.
Unfortunately, doctors never mentioned healing as a possibility.
At his diagnosis, his doctors told him that the best he could hope for would be periods of remission.
At thirteen, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohn\'s disease--a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties
