Author : David Schenck
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 2011-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199735387
Healing is often discussed but infrequently studied. Schenck and Churchill provide a systematic approach to the elements that make clinician-patient interactions themselves a source of healing, based on comprehensive interviews with 50 physicians and alternative practitioners. The authors present a compelling picture of how healing happens in the practices of extraordinary clinicians.
Author : James Randi
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Exposes the pretension and fraud that surrounds the faith healer business, revealing how alleged faith healers prey on the insecurities and vulnerabilities of the people they preach to.
Author : Richard Carlson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 1989-02-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0874774942
In thirty-seven original essays written for this book, some of the world's leaders in healing explore their personal and professional experiences in order to uncover the underlying principles on which all healing rests. Rather than focusing on diverse techniques, the writers seek the "golden thread" that ties together the wide range of approaches to healing. In simple, direct language, the contributors explore the complex nature of healing from many viewpoints. We hear from physicians, psychologists, nurses, metaphysical healers, and shamans. Their topics include: what healing really is and how it takes place the power of the healer within what to look for in a healer the function of spirituality in healing the dramatic effects of the healing relationship the role of attitudes and emotions love as a healing force healing and death The result is a grand synthesis of heartfelt thinking that offers a treasury of profound insights for people in the healing professions, people who seek to develop their own healing capacities, people who wish to benefit from healers, and anyone interested in the magical properties of human relationships.
Author : James Forrester
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 48,39 MB
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1466862556
At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. James Forrester tells the story of the mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated medical wisdom of the day to begin conquering heart disease. By the middle of the 20th century, heart disease was killing millions and, as with the Black Death centuries before, physicians stood helpless. Visionaries, though, had begun to make strides earlier. On Sept. 7, 1895, Ludwig Rehn successfully sutured the heart of a living man with a knife wound to the chest for the first time. Once it was deemed possible to perform surgery on the heart, others followed. In 1929, Dr. Werner Forssman inserted a cardiac catheter in his own arm and forced the x-ray technician on duty to take a photo as he successfully threaded it down the vein into his own heart...and lived. On June 6, 1944 - D-Day - another momentous event occurred far from the Normandy beaches: Dr. Dwight Harken sutured the shrapnel-injured heart of a young soldier, saved his life and the term "cardiac surgeon" born. Dr. Forrester tells the story of these rebels and the risks they took with their own lives and the lives of others to heal the most elemental of human organs - the heart. The result is a compelling chronicle of a disease and its cure, a disease that is still with us, but one that is slowly being worn away by "The Heart Healers".
Author : Howard Brody
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 37,42 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300057836
Drawing on literary works dealing with medical power, Brody argues that proposals to reduce or eliminate the power of the physician are misguided. Instead, there should be guidelines to enable the physician to share with the patient the information and responsibility for deciding on treatment.
Author : Jeanne Achterberg
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,76 MB
Release : 1991-03-13
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0834828715
This groundbreaking work examines the role of women in the Western healing traditions. Drawing on the disciplines of history, anthropology, botany, archaeology, and the behavioral sciences, Jeanne Achterberg discusses the ancient cultures in which women worked as independent and honored healers; the persecution of women healers in the witch hunts of the Middle Ages; the development of midwifery and nursing as women's professions in the nineteenth century; and the current role of women and the state of the healing arts, as a time of crisis in the health-care professions coincides with the reemergence of feminine values.
Author : Jenniffer Weigel
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 12,62 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1571747761
People are fascinated by those who claim to have extraordinary psychic abilities. It is safe to say that many of these folks are either extraordinary frauds or extraordinarily deluded. But could some people actually possess psychic gifts that can be used to help and heal? Weigel became particularly interested in this topic after the death of her father in 2001. Now she provides in-depth interviews with today's top mediums, psychics, and healers, and shares readings they conducted for both her and another individual, and shares the astounding results.
Author : Holger Kalweit
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 30,36 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :
Explores the primal healing methods of shamans all over the world, showing that healing is not merely the alleviation of symptoms but a transformation of one's relationship to life.
Author : Mfundishi Salim
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,78 MB
Release : 2017-01-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780989690690
This book "Spiritual Warriors are Healers" is about the Kemet/Kashspiritual system along the Hapy (Nile River) Eteru, northeast Afraka.It is a book of our ancient story, the parents of civilization thecreators of Mdw Ntchr- Divine words and writing of the creator, divinemath, science, architecture, Herbology and the science of healingusing crystals and colors. This book also explains we are the foundersof the first organized combat system the Mentchu Warrior Arts. Thisbook will help inspire and empower you, build good character and teachyou how to be the captain of your own ship.
Author : Tracy J. Luedke
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0253346630
In southeast Africa, the power to heal is often associated with crossing borders, whether literal or metaphorical. This wide-ranging volume reveals that healers, whose power depends on the ability to broker therapeutic resources, also contribute to the construction of the borders they transgress. While addressing diverse healing practices such as herbalism, razor-blade vaccination, spirit possession, prophetic healing, missionary health clinics, and traumatic storytelling, the nine lively and provocative essays in Borders and Healers explore the creativity and resilience of the region's healers and those they heal in a world shaped by economic stagnation, declining state commitments to health care, and the AIDS pandemic. This important book contributes to understandings of the ways in which healing practices in southeast Africa mediate divides between the wealthy and the impoverished, the traditional and the modern, the local and the global.
