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Green medicine : challenging the assumptions of conventional health care / Larry Malerba.

Title
Green medicine : challenging the assumptions of conventional health care / Larry Malerba.
Author
Malerba, Larry, 1958-
Publication
Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, c2010.

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Description
403 p. ; ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
"Blends a philosophy of healing, ecological consciousness, and spirituality with a critique of conventional medicine and provides a new vision of health care that includes the best of orthodox medical and holistic healing methods"--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  • Clinical Medicine
  • Clinical Medicine > history
  • Complementary Therapies > trends
  • Environmental Health > trends
  • Green movement
  • Integrative medicine
  • Philosophy, Medical
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-390) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The unifying life force -- Innate healing intelligence -- Historical and spiritual roots -- Shamanic journey to the soul -- Perceiving the natural order -- Limitations of medical materialism -- The synchronistic milieu -- Advice and dissent -- The external enemy -- Cultural medicalization -- The illusion of cure -- The sanctity of science -- Healing the rift -- The direction of cure -- The alchemical key -- Renewable healing resources -- Greener medical pastures.
ISBN
9781556439025
LCCN
^^2009048215
OCLC
467710858
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library