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The Healing Arts: Exploring the Medical Ways of the World
Examining the full range of the world's medical perspectives and practices throughout the ages, this study discusses the nature of illness, the mind's effect on the body, and the healing power of various nontraditional approaches to healing
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First published September 1, 1987
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March 16, 2019
An open view of how the world of medicine is made of many parts. Each system a unique way to see/treat/prevent disease.
Bridges the gap between Western and Eastern medicine.
Bridges the gap between Western and Eastern medicine.
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December 8, 2024"Nowadays, because of the power of the experimental method, we take it for granted that quantitative science is the port of ultimate knowledge. Yet an important part of the reality of people's lives consists of just those things that are illusory or secondary to science. Not everything can be reduced to repeatable experiments, least of all the life of colours and sounds, pleasures and pains, ambitions and purposes"
"The reality of the person and his suffering is too large for any one medicine ever to comprehend"
"The reality of the person and his suffering is too large for any one medicine ever to comprehend"
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