Green medicine challenging the assumptions of conventional health care

• Main Author: Malerba, Larry 1958- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, Calif. North Atlantic Books 2010
• Subjects: Complementary Therapies > trends > United States; Philosophy, Medical > United States; Clinical Medicine > history > United States; Environmental Health > trends > United States
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"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.

Table of 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.