Synopses & Reviews
This collection of essays by Anatole Broyard, Joseph Bruchac, Norman Cousins, John Donne, Kat Duff, Maya Deren, Thich Nhat Hanh, Helen M. Luke, and others draws from many disciplines and points of view to offer a powerful perspective on health and healing, disability and disease, doctors and doctoring, Eastern and Western medical theories and treatments and the final step in the healing process--consciously confronting the inevitability of death. Patients with cancer, AIDS, alcoholism, chronic fatigue syndrome, paralysis, and other debilitative and chronic diseases give their personal accounts of facing and, in some cases, conquering illness. More than mere inspirational anecdotes, these are thought-provoking explorations of a difficult subject that encourage a reexamination of views on sickness, health and the path between them.
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"A rich melody of wise voices-a haunting tone poem whose golden beat is the age-old search for the elusive and hidden powers of sickness and cure." (-Whole Earth Review)
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"This is a better companion than most for readers thinking about endurance or mortality." (-Publishers Weekly)
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"[This book] is perhaps most illustrative of just how expansive the concept of healing has become. . . . This is a book for musing over; it approaches its subject from diverse and sometimes unexpected angles." (-New Age Journal)
Synopsis
In an era when healing has become of increasingly vital concern, The Nature of Healing explores this subject from the perspective of a variety of cultures, traditions and sciences to offer a powerful perspective on health and healing, disability and disease, doctors and doctoring, Eastern and Western medical theories and treatments, and the final step in the healing process consciously confronting the inevitability of death. The primary focus of The Nature of Healing is on the transformative nature of disease and the metaphorical dimension of healing. Contributors include Norman Cousins, C.G.Jung, Bill Wilson, Thich Nhat Hanh and many others.