Research Catalog
Health and healing
- Title
- Health and healing / Andrew Weil.
- Author
- Weil, Andrew
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | R733 .W42 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 296 p.; 21 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-285) and index.
- Contents
- 1. A Homeopathic Cure? -- 2. Like Cures Like, and Less Is More -- 3. Why Does Homeopathy Work? -- 4. Health as Wholeness; Wholeness as Perfection -- 5. Health as Wholeness; Wholeness as Balance -- 6. Ten Principles of Health and Illness -- 7. The Nature of Healing -- 8. Allopathic Medicine I: Physicians and Surgeons -- 9. Allopathic Medicine II: Materia Medica -- 10. Allopathic Medicine III: Sins of Omission -- 11. Some Medical Heresies: Osteopathy, Chiropractic, Naturopathy -- 12. Chinese Medicine -- 13. Shamanism, Mind Cures, and Faith Healing -- 14. Psychic Healing -- 15. Holistic Medicine -- 16. Quackery -- 17. What Do All These Therapeutic Systems Have in Common? -- 18. Why Warts Fall Off -- 19. The Placebo Response -- 20. Medical Treatments as Active Placebos -- 21. Powers of the Mind and the Problem of Harnessing Them -- 22. What Doctors Can Learn from Physicists -- 23. New Medicine for a New Century.
- ISBN
- 0395731003 (pbk)
- OCLC
- ocm32711094
- SCSB-4777843
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries