A Return to Healing
Author: Len Saputo
Publisher: Origin Press (CA)
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781579830526
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The Last Best Cure
Author: Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-02-21
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1101609907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne day Donna Jackson Nakazawa found herself lying on the floor to recover from climbing the stairs. That’s when it hit her. She was managing the symptoms of the autoimmune disorders that had plagued her for a decade, but she had lost her joy. As a science journalist, she was curious to know what mind-body strategies might help her. As a wife and mother she was determined to get her life back. Over the course of one year, Nakazawa researches and tests a variety of therapies including meditation, yoga, and acupuncture to find out what works. But the discovery of a little-known branch of research into Adverse Childhood Experiences causes her to have an epiphany about her illness that not only stuns her—it turns her life around. Perfect for readers of Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project, Nakazawa shares her unexpected discoveries, amazing improvements, and shows readers how they too can find their own last best cure.
Slow Medicine
Author: Victoria Sweet
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017-10-17
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0698183711
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Wonderful... Physicans would do well to learn this most important lesson about caring for patients." —The New York Times Book Review Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, “healthcare” has replaced medicine, “providers” look at their laptops more than at their patients, and costs keep soaring, all in the ruthless pursuit of efficiency. Yet the remedy that economists and policy makers continue to miss is also miraculously simple. Good medicine takes more than amazing technology; it takes time—time to respond to bodies as well as data, time to arrive at the right diagnosis and the right treatment. Sweet knows this because she has learned and lived it over the course of her remarkable career. Here she relates unforgettable stories of the teachers, doctors, nurses, and patients through whom she discovered the practice of Slow Medicine, in which she has been both pioneer and inspiration. Medicine, she helps us to see, is a craft and an art as well as a science. It is relational, personal, even spiritual. To do it well requires a hard-won wisdom that no algorithm can replace—that brings together “fast” and “slow” in a truly effective, efficient, sustainable, and humane way of healing.
The Art of Medicine
Author: Herbert Ho Ping Kong
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2014-07-01
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1770905669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA renowned diagnostician shares stories of his patients and explores the importance of the human factor in medicine. In The Art of Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital’s internist Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong draws on his vast dossier of personal cases and five decades as a clinician to examine the core principles of a patient-centered approach to diagnosis and treatment. While HPK, as he is fondly known, recognizes and applauds the many invaluable innovations in medical technology, he makes the point that as disease and its management grow increasingly complex, physicians must learn to develop an arsenal of more basic skills, actively using the arts of seeing, hearing, palpation, empathy, and advocacy to provide a more humane and holistic form of care. Aimed at medical practitioners, aspiring doctors, or anyone interested in health and medicine, this book also contains interviews with more than a dozen of HPK’s patients, as well as short essays that explore the thinking of his professional colleagues on the art of medicine.
Return to Joy
Author: Bev DeSalvo
Publisher: NavPress
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1631465414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Return to Joy, Bev DeSalvo shares her own story of healing from past pain to draw other women along a journey toward intimacy with their Savior. The road to healing is arduous and long. But when we bow our pain in worship, this broken road leads to the heart of God, where all masks are removed and divine comfort can be experienced. On this journey, understanding the true nature of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit brings healing and restoration to all father, relational, and mother wounds. Learning to aggressively fight against Satan, who is devious but not creative, replaces his evil lies with the truth of God so that they no longer define the person. Recognizing that God is always “with me” leads to a place of rest where there is no fear of being rejected or abandoned. As a result of these new insights, the reader can finally return to joy and experience emotional and spiritual balance. Out of the overflow of intimate worship, God becomes their refuge, provider, and protector, enabling them to move toward others in forgiveness and true community. Includes a ten-week Bible study.
Spirituality, Healing and Medicine
Author: David Aldridge
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2000-03
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1846422213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe spiritual factors associated with healing are increasingly being acknowledged by modern medicine. Our definition of what constitutes health has expanded beyond the purely medical, yet the delivery of modern medicine to the patient often fails to take this into account. Doctors, anthropologists, psychologists and sociologists have all written on the subject, but thus far the literature has been fragmented between the disciplines. David Aldridge presents the first unified approach to the subject. In Spirituality, Healing and Medicine he evaluates the existing literature from across the disciplines to ascertain just how effective and influential spiritual healing may be on the patient's physical and psychological well-being. He encourages us to redefine treatment strategies and the ways in which we understand health, and argues that the spiritual elements of experience help the patient to find purpose, meaning and hope in the face of sickness. It is in the understanding of suffering and the need for deliverance from it, he suggests, that the traditions and aims of medicine and spirituality meet.
Healing Politics
Author: Abdul El-Sayed
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1683358139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA memoir about restoring the health of our people, and our democracy, from a physician and “one of the brightest young stars” of the progressive movement (Sen. Bernie Sanders). A child of immigrants, Abdul El-Sayed grew up feeling a responsibility to help others. He threw himself into the study of medicine and excelled—winning a Rhodes Scholarship, earning two advanced degrees, and landing a tenure-track position at Columbia University. At thirty, he became the youngest city health official in America, tasked with rebuilding Detroit’s health department after years of austerity policies. But El-Sayed found himself disillusioned. He could heal the sick—even build healthier, safer communities—but that wouldn’t address the social and economic conditions causing illness in the first place. So he left health for politics, running for Governor of Michigan and earning the support of progressive champions like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders. This memoir traces the life of a young idealist, weaving together powerful personal stories and fascinating forays into history and science. Marrying his unique perspective with the science of epidemiology, El-Sayed diagnoses an underlying epidemic afflicting our country, an epidemic of insecurity. And to heal the rifts this epidemic has created, he lays out a new direction for the progressive movement. This is a bold, personal, and compellingly original book from a prominent young leader. “In Healing Politics, Abdul El-Sayed doesn’t just diagnose the causes of our broken politics; he gives us a prescription and treatment plan.” —Representative Pramila Jayapal
The Healing of America
Author: T. R. Reid
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010-08-31
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0143118218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times Bestseller, with an updated explanation of the 2010 Health Reform Bill "Important and powerful . . . a rich tour of health care around the world." —Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times Bringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid visits industrialized democracies around the world--France, Britain, Germany, Japan, and beyond--to provide a revelatory tour of successful, affordable universal health care systems. Now updated with new statistics and a plain-English explanation of the 2010 health care reform bill, The Healing of America is required reading for all those hoping to understand the state of health care in our country, and around the world. T. R. Reid's latest book, A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System, is also available from Penguin Press.
Return of the Rishi
Author: Deepak Chopra
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780395574201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith his earlier books, Quantum Healing, Perfect Health and Creating Health, Dr Chopra developed a blend of Eastern and Western medical philosophy with the intention of creating a cleaner, richer view of the road to perfect health - a balance of mind, body and spirit. He now continues his prescription as he describes his journey from India to the West and from a formal practice as a board-certified endocrinologist to a wider view of the primacy of the mind and spirit.
Healing with Source
Author: Dave Markowitz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-07-01
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 184409376X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ultimate guide to understanding, preventing, and healing diseases and illnesses, this resource offers simple steps for creating permanent well-being. Emphasizing how repressed emotions, such as anger and grief, can manifest in pain and sickness, this book shows how new, more empowered choices--including forgiveness, openness, and radical acceptance--can prevent problems and heal at the root without the employment of drugs or surgery. With information on how these healing techniques can help and prevent even the most advanced and debilitating illnesses, this essential study raises awareness on the relationship between spiritual growth and health.
