{"product_id":"desire-to-heal-a-doctors-education-in-empathy-identity-poetry-paperback","title":"Desire to Heal: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, \u0026 Poetry - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRafael Campo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rafael Campo is that rare and exotic hybrid,\" raved the \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e, \"a doctor-poet, with a sensualist point of view that leads him to explore... the eroticism of healing-the laying on of hands.\" In this \"unrelenting effort to humanize the medical profession\" (\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e), Campo turns the doctor-patient relationship inside out, writing not just of his attempts to heal, but of how his patients have healed him. He writes of campy Aurora, \"dying of love\"; the elderly woman telling of her trip to the country to pick \"big-as-your-hands\" peaches; a hateful addict he wished would die; and Gary, whom he feared to love, \"contentious and gossipy and irreverent.\" Campo's work, \"reminiscent of Chekhov... [in] the way language comes up out of the body\" (\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e), restores \"the transcendent power of language to redeem\" as, throughout the book, \"the narrative, and the narrator, only get more luscious\" (\u003cem\u003eOut\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 7.58 x 5.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 17, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42143398297680,"sku":"9780393317718","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/SWluR1YzZGo4d2FkVzZ1YkM4Yzdsdz09.webp?v=1774443015","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/desire-to-heal-a-doctors-education-in-empathy-identity-poetry-paperback","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}