The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness Audiobook (Free)

An inspiring and profoundly enlightening exploration of 1 doctor’s breakthrough of how wish can change

the span of illness

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, humans have believed that hope is vital to life. Today, within this groundbreaking publication, Harvard Medical School teacher and New Yorker staff writer Jerome Groopman shows us why.

The search for hope is most urgent in the patient’s bedside. The Anatomy of Wish will take us there, bringing us in to the lives of people at pivotal about The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail when confronted with Illness moments when they reach for and discover hope–or when it eludes their grasp. Through these intimate portraits, we learn how to distinguish true hope from false, why some individuals feel they may be undeserving from it, and whether we should ever depart our search.

Can hope contribute to recovery by changing physical well-being? To answer this hotly debated query, Groopman embarked on an investigative journey to cutting-edge laboratories where research workers are unraveling a geniune biology of hope. There he discovers a scientific basis for understanding the role of this essential emotion in the results of illness.

This is a reserve that offers a new way of thinking on the subject of hope, with a note for all readers, not merely patients and their families. “We are just beginning to appreciate hope’s reach,” Groopman writes, “and have not defined its limits. I see hope as the very heart of recovery.”