Bibliograph

Health and healing, Andrew Weil

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Health and healing, Andrew Weil

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Health and healing

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

17614238

Responsibility statement

Andrew Weil

Table Of Contents

A homeopathic cure? -- Like cures like, and less is more -- Why does homeopathy work? -- Health as wholeness, wholeness as perfection -- Health as wholeness, wholeness as balance -- Ten principles of health and illness -- The nature of healing -- Allopathic medicine I : physicians and surgeons -- Allopathic medicine II : Materia Medica -- Allopathic medicine III : sins of omission -- Some medical heresies : osteopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy -- Chinese medicine -- Shamanism, mind cures, and faith healing -- Psychic healing -- Holistic medicine -- Quackery -- What do all these therapeutic systems have in common? -- Why warts fall off -- The placebo response -- Medical treatments as active placebos -- Powers of the mind and the problem of harnessing them -- What doctors can learn from physicists -- New medicine for a new century

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