On Learning to HealAt thirteen, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohns diseasea chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties. At his diagnosis, his doctors told him that the best he could hope for would be periods of remission. Unfortunately, doctors never mentioned healing as a possibility. In On Learning to Heal, Cohen draws on fifty years of living with Crohns to consider how Western medicines turn from an art of healing toward a science of