The Cure Within

A History of Mind-Body Medicine

Anne Harrington (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

338 Seiten

2009
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-33397-8 (ISBN)

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"A splendid history of mind-body medicine...a book that desperately needed to be written." —Jerome Groopman, New York Times

Is stress a deadly disease on the rise in modern society? Can mind-body practices from the East help us become well? When it comes to healing, we believe we must look beyond doctors and drugs; we must look within ourselves. Faith, relationships, and attitude matter.

But why do we believe such things? From psychoanalysis to the placebo effect to meditation, this vibrant cultural history describes mind-body healing as rooted in a patchwork of stories, allowing us to make new sense of our suffering and to rationalize new treatments and lifestyles.

Anne Harrington is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science and faculty dean of Pforzheimer House at Harvard University. She is the author of four books, including Mind Fixers and The Cure Within. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Zusatzinfo	36 illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 211 mm
Gewicht	346 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-393-33397-3 / 0393333973
ISBN-13	978-0-393-33397-8 / 9780393333978
Zustand	Neuware