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Together The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
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98/100Author:
Vivek H. Murthy
Publisher:
Harper
Date:
April 28, 2020
The 19th Surgeon General of the United States makes a case for loneliness as a public health concern: a root cause and contributor to many of the epidemics sweeping the world today, from alcohol and drug addiction to violence to depression and anxiety.
What The Reviewers Say
... surprising.
Murthy writes with compassion, but his everything-can-be-reduced-to-loneliness argument is hard to swallow, not least because much of what he has to say about loneliness was said about homelessness in the nineteen-eighties.
Murthy offers some useful prescriptions.
