The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine
A splendid history of mind-body medicine...a book that desperately needed to be written. —Jerome Groopman, New York TimesIs stress a deadly disease on the rise in modern society? Can mind-body practices from the East help us become well? When it comes to healing, we believe we must look beyond doctors and drugs; we must look within ourselves. Faith, relationships, and attitude matter.But why do we believe such things? From psychoanalysis to the placebo effect to meditation, this vibrant cultural history describes mind-body healing as rooted in a patchwork of stories, allowing us to make new sense of our suffering and to rationalize new treatm…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-07108-5
- EAN: 9780393071085
- Produktnummer: 34246061
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 354 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 498 KB
- Abbildungen: 36 illustrations
Über den Autor
Anne Harrington is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science and faculty dean of Pforzheimer House at Harvard University. She is the author of four books, including Mind Fixers and The Cure Within. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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