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Heal me : in search of a cure / Julia Buckley.
Van Pelt Library RB127.5.C48 B83 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buckley, Julia (Freelance journalist), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buckley, Julia (Freelance journalist)--Health.
- Buckley, Julia.
- Chronic pain--Patients--Biography.
- Chronic pain.
- Chronic pain--Alternative treatment.
- Chronic Pain.
- Pain Management.
- Complementary Therapies.
- Chronic pain--Patients.
- Medical Subjects:
- Chronic Pain.
- Pain Management.
- Complementary Therapies.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 346 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018.
- Summary:
- Julia Buckley needs a miracle. Like a third of the UK population, she has a chronic pain condition. According to her doctors, it can't be cured. She doesn't believe them. She does believe in miracles, though. It's just a question of tracking one down. Julia's search for a cure takes her on a global quest, exploring the boundaries between science, psychology and faith with practitioners on the fringes of conventional, traditional and alternative medicine. Can miracles happen? And more importantly, what happens next if they do? Raising vital questions about the modern medical system, this is also a story about identity in a system historically skewed against 'hysterical' female patients, and the struggle to retain a sense of self under the medical gaze.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781474601511
- 1474601510
- OCLC:
- 1022287092
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