After Shock

In this powerful follow-up to her bestselling memoir In Shock, a doctor asks: What does it truly mean to heal?In the aftermath of her own critical illness, physician and writer Dr. Rana Awdish finds herself oddly estranged her from her own body. Medicine has conditioned her to view sick bodies as broken objects, not as sites of meaning, mystery, and quiet wisdom. So, when her own body warns her th...