A Cry Unheard: New Insights into the Medical Consequences of Loneliness by Lynch Dr. James J

Author:Lynch, Dr. James J. [Lynch, Dr. James J.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Health
ISBN: 1890862118
Publisher: Bancroft Press
Published: 2010-06-10T04:00:00+00:00

“THE LAND OF SERENDIP”

We owe to an eighteenth century Persian poet the marvelous concept of “serendipity.” It is a word born in the delightful Persian tale entitled “The Three Princes of Serendip.” Webster’s Dictionary defines “serendipity” as “the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable things not sought for.” It represents a type of “accidental sagacity; the faculty of making fortunate discoveries of things you were not looking for.”

Serendipity is the only word that can adequately describe the confluence of events that surrounded my meeting W. Horsley Gantt, M.D., in 1962. Little did I know at the time that, for the next 18 years, until his death in 1980 at the age of 88, he would be my teacher and mentor. And serendipity is the only word that can adequately describe all that was contained in several of his research concepts that came to serve as the structural underpinnings of this book. Three such concepts are especially important:

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