Medicine Grove
Medicine Grove

Author: Loren Cruden

Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

Published: 1997-05

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780892816477

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Offers guidelines for incorporating herbs into one's spiritual life. Includes chapters on gathering wild herbs and using herbs in Shamanic ceremonies.

Medicine Grove
Medicine Grove

Author: Loren Cruden

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1997-05-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1620550377

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Medicine Grove is a comprehensive herbal, with listings for every common herb and many wild plants of North America. It includes descriptions of the part of the plant used, notes on preparation, lists of symptoms alleviated by the herb, and common effects. But Medicine Grove goes further, with chapters on gathering and growing wild herbs, using herbs in shamanic ceremonies or as plant allies in the wilderness, and birth, death, and dreaming herbs. Cruden combines her own first-hand experiences with a profound knowledge of indigenous traditions, enabling the reader to bring herbal lore into his or her own practice. She explains which herbs are best for seasonal ceremonies, smudging, and making offerings, and tells how to purify a sacred space. She covers topics such as vision quests, consciousness-altering, and the special connections between certain herbs and totem animals. Medicine Grove brings the concept of an herbal into sacred territory, offering guidelines for incorporating herbs into one's spiritual life, based on the author's lifetime of work with Native American practices.

Yearbook
Yearbook

Author: American College of Surgeons

Publisher:

Published: 1927

Total Pages: 856

ISBN-13:

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Supplements accompany some numbers; annual supplement issued 1944-46 during suspension of main publication.

Code Blue
Code Blue

Author: Mike Magee

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 0802146872

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This “searing and persuasive exposé of the American health care system” demonstrates the disastrous consequences of putting profit before people (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In this timely and important book, Mike Magee, M.D., sends out a “Code Blue” —an urgent medical emergency—for the American medical industry itself. A former hospital administrator and Pfizer executive, he has spent years investigating the pillars of our health system: Big Pharma, insurance companies, hospitals, the American Medical Association, and anyone affiliated with them. Code Blue is a riveting, character-driven narrative that draws back the curtain on the giant industry that consumes one out of every five American dollars. Making clear for the first time the mechanisms, greed, and collusion by which our medical system was built over the last eight decades. He persuasively argues for a single-payer, multi-plan insurance arena of the kind enjoyed by every other major developed nation.

More Than Medicine
More Than Medicine

Author: LaTonya J. Trotter

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2020-04-15

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1501748173

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In More Than Medicine, LaTonya J. Trotter chronicles the everyday work of a group of nurse practitioners (NPs) working on the front lines of the American health care crisis as they cared for four hundred African American older adults living with poor health and limited means. Trotter describes how these NPs practiced an inclusive form of care work that addressed medical, social, and organizational problems that often accompany poverty. In solving this expanded terrain of problems from inside the clinic, these NPs were not only solving a broader set of concerns for their patients; they became a professional solution for managing "difficult people" for both their employer and the state. Through More Than Medicine, we discover that the problems found in the NP's exam room are as much a product of our nation's disinvestment in social problems as of physician scarcity or rising costs.