Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of True Healing

by John Robbins, Marianne Williamson (Foreword by)

The author calls for a revolution in health care, criticizing its hostility to alternative medicine and its bias against women

Genres: Health, Nonfiction

420 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

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Please see: John Robbins

John Robbins was an American author, who popularized the links among nutrition, environmentalism, and animal rights.
He was the author of the 1987 Diet for a New America, an exposé on connections between diet, physical health, animal cruelty, and environmentalism. Robbins founded the organization EarthSave in 1988 and co-founded the Food Revolution Network with his son, Ocean, in 2011. He was a leading voice in the plant-based movement.

Reviews

[Andy Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Robbins' updated version of A Diet For A New America. Compelling research to support his passionate position on diet. It's hard to overstate how readable and enjoyable this great work of nonfiction really is. John Robbins is truly a genius.

[Melissa · Rating 2 out of 5]

My eyebrows went up on one claim about the result of a controlled study of "therapeutic touch." I checked the citation-- it was to an unpublished source and the researcher is discredited. So I still wonder why anyone would want to pay someone to wave hands around in the air when they could get a massage instead. But mostly I wonder why Robbins includes hand waving in this book.

[Liaken · Rating 5 out of 5]

While this book is somewhat on the fanatic side of things, the author has done a good job of collecting his research and making it accessible to the average reader. This book has influenced many of my friends to go for a midwife rather than an ob-gyn for their pregnancies and births.

[Lydel · Rating 4 out of 5]

A "must-read" for anyone who wants to educate themselves about our medical system. You will be both appalled and uplifted--appalled at what has happened then and now; uplifted by the
alternatives that are out there. There is hope. As always, John Robbins writes with love in his heart.

[Adrienne Carmichael · Rating 5 out of 5]

In my "favorites" shelf... an expose on American medicine and the AMA.
Includes the witchhunts of the AMA after midwives.
John Robbins says, Doctors will come down from their thrones when we get off our knees.
A necessary book to inform yourself what to be aware of regarding western medicine.

[Sjoen · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must read expose of the follies of the current medical model. I recommend it for those who want to take responsibility for their own health.

[Angeline · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found a lot of thought provoking stuff in this book when I was pregnant for the first time. Thanks for giving it to me Lia!

[Penny · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic info on midwives, menopause, the AMA, and fighting cancer by alternative means. It's an important message.

[Dayna Colvin · Rating 5 out of 5]

John Robbins' "Reclaiming Our Health" is a very poignant, gentle, wise, courageous eye opening account into the truth about the medical industry.

[Karina M. Bishop · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really only liked the hospital analogy at the beginning. Way too much time spent on female reproduction.