Manifesto for a new medicine : your guide to healing partnerships and the wise use of alternative therapies / James S. Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, James S. (James Samuel)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-care, Health.

Alternative medicine.

Physician and patient.

Physical Description:

x, 358 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Your guide to healing partnerships and the wise use of alternative therapies

Place of Publication:

Reading, Mass. : Perseus Books, [1996]

Summary:

More than a third of Americans have already begun to explore alternative techniques such as yoga, meditation, nutritional therapies, massage, acupuncture, homeopathy, chiropractic, herbalism, and prayer, but we don't know which approaches to trust, or what accounts for their effectiveness, and our doctors are not able to tell us. We want an authoritative guide to separate what's truly worthwhile from what's simply well promoted, to help us to see what's right for each of us. James S. Gordon is that guide, and Manifesto for a New Medicine is that guidebook. For the last twenty-five years, Dr. Gordon has pioneered an approach to healing that synthesizes the best of modern, scientific medicine with the best of the alternative techniques. Here he leads us step by step through convincing and absorbing case studies of the successful use of these alternatives, presenting clearly and simply the scientific bases for them. He also shows us how each of us can incorporate alternative therapies as an integral part of our health care and our daily lives.

Contents:

1. Time for a change

2. Biomedicine and beyond

3. A healing crisis

4. Physician, heal thyself

5. We are all unique

6. Whole people in their total environments

7. The healing partnership

8. Self-care as primary care : the power of the mind (1)

9. Self-care as primary care : the power of the mind (2)

10. Self-care as primary care : touch, movement, and breathing

11. Self-care as primary care : "when I eat, I eat"

12. Other medicines

13. Helping one another

14. The healing path

15. Creating the new medicine

16. Next steps.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-328) and index.

ISBN:

0201898284

OCLC:

50136946