Putting It Into Words with Morhaf Al Achkar MD, PhD
CancerTalks Podcast
English - August 06, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 96.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsAlternative Health Health & Fitness Society & Culture Personal Journals healing health politics cancer journey spirit story transformation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Morhaf Al Achkar MD, PhD, is a family physician and associate professor at the University of Washington. After migrating to the U.S. from his birthplace of Aleppo, Syria in 2006, he obtained his PhD in Education from Indiana University. He is the author of three books, including Roads to Meaning and Resilience with Cancer and Being Authentic.
In 2016, in his early 30s, Morhaf was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. Since then, his research has focused on the experience of people living with cancer, exploring how these patients find meaning, cope, and build resilience.
Morhaf's Reading List:
1. The Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
2. The Theory of Communicative Action by Jürgen Habermas
3. Making It Explicit by Robert Brandom
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