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Books > Medicine > Complementary medicine
There seems to be nothing wrong with you.
The Best of Women's Health" brings to the forefront progressive
information on the various medical conditions that affect women in
the 21st century. But the informative guide also discusses the
social, racial, economic, health care disparities and other
inequities that illustrate the alarming differences between how men
and women are cared for by our society and the United States
government.
Dr. Valiere Alcena shares his vast experience as a practicing
physician and researcher as he describes the symptoms, diagnosis,
treatment, and prevention of today's most common female diseases
such as hypertension, diabetes, stroke, heart disease, cancer,
anemia, arthritis, osteoporosis, lung diseases, depression,
alcoholism, and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Alcena provides intricate details,
figures, and graphs that illustrate the inner-workings of the
female body as well as practical information on various topics such
as the:
Most effective diet for optimal health Reasons for iron
deficiency Symptoms of major depression Factors that bring on a
migraine
"The Best of Women's Health" will teach women to take charge of
their health and demand positive change in our health care system,
ultimately ensuring that the female population in our country
receives the care they deserve-not only today, but in the
future.
Blending cutting-edge scientific research with useful messages
about personal responsibility and prosperity, "Cracking the Cancer
Code" is a groundbreaking handbook which will help you understand
and apply the principals of abundant health. Dr. Matthew J. Loop
provides a brief overview of the nature and causes of cancer while
discussing its common treatments, then elaborates on the various
external and environmental factors that contribute to its
development. He emphasizes the tenets of proper nutrition, and
investigates the environmental hazards that people unwittingly
expose themselves to on a daily basis. Dr. Loop also examines
internal factors-thoughts, feelings, and disposition-and the role
they ultimately play in physical health. Shattering commonly held
beliefs about the nature and causes of cancer, Dr. Loop's "Cracking
the Cancer Code" gives back what many facing the disease feel they
have lost: a sense of their own power. Prosperity and abundance, in
the form of health, manifests itself from the inside out. "Cracking
the Cancer Code" is an easy-to-understand and comprehensive
reference guide that will help anyone diagnosed with cancer
discover the path to empowerment and optimal health.
This book critically assesses the implications of modern medicine's
claim to be a natural science. Medicine models its scientific and
clinical self-understanding on an obsolete positivist conception of
science, reality, and consciousness. In this view, the body is
modeled as a biological machine, disease as breakdown of the
machine, and therapy as physical measures to fix the machine. The
problems besetting medical science and practice are rooted in the
inadequacy of the positivist philosophical assumptions regarding
the nature of science, reality and consciousness To base the
diagnostic practices and therapeutic regimes purely on knowledge of
physical processes in the human body is, in view of this analysis,
at best grossly inadequate, at worst thoroughly dehumanizing (Anton
van Niekerk: Editorial Foreword). This means that medicine's
clinical method cannot be transformed without transforming the
underlying view of science, of reality, and of the human person.
The book proposes a broader model of science which overcomes the
outdated dichotomy between human and natural sciences. Science is
viewed as an interdisciplinary exercise generating multiple
perspectives. The insights of the human sciences are essential for
scientific clinical medicine. Utilizing evolutionary biology and
complexity theory, the author proposes an alternative understanding
of reality and human consciousness as a basis for a transformed
clinical method. Reality is a hierarchy of systems of increasing
complexity. Different levels can be distinguished, namely material
systems, living material systems, conscious living material systems
and self-conscious living material systems. Each level represents a
new manner of being which requires a different scientific discourse
of understanding. Using this model of reality the author argues
against understanding human consciousness as a byproduct of
physical processes in the brain. The human person is a
self-conscious, complex, psycho-somatic system, whose well-being is
conditioned by much more than physical processes.
Este libro hace un an lisis de los conceptos de Salud y su educaci
n en el contexto de la sociedad y la escuela, y los enfoca hacia la
Medicina Tradicional y Natural como una alternativa para
desarrollarla en el proceso de ense anza. Es un material bibliogr
fico que sirve como referencia para comprender la esencia de esta
medicina de manera sencilla y que pueda ser incorporada a la vida
cotidiana y sobre todo al proceso educativo en las escuelas. Aunque
aborda conceptos de la Medicina Tradicional China es f cil de
comprender y aplicar en el mantenimiento de la salud humana.
Are you curious about new knowledge about health? Are you not
satisfied with the usual explanation to cancer? Is there something
that the doctors don't know? What can I do myself to heal my
cancer? Is there a connection between my life situation and my
cancer? In How I Healed My Life, Dagfrid Kolaas seeks to answer
your questions and put the topic of cancer in a whole new light.
You will be deeply touched by Dagfrid's history. She candidly
shares her journey from divorce, crisis and subsequent cancer
diagnosis to her finding her own strength and complete healing.
Inspired by Louise L. Hay and Brandon Bay, she let herself be
guided by her own inner voice. Much of what she found on the
journey may be of great joy and inspiration to others in similar
situations. How I Healed My Life shows how cancer can be understood
at a much deeper level than most people think. The heartwarming
storytelling style makes the book easy to read and informative. The
fear of cancer becomes to hope of healing. How I Healed My Life
also contains a comprehensive mind-body encyclopedia in which you
easily can find what emotions or situations that cause your
particular disease or cancer. It is a home pharmacy that deserves
to be in every home.
There is ample evidence that children and adolescents in large
numbers are actively using integrative (complementary and
alternative) therapies. Various studies now indicate that over 50%
of pediatricians surveyed would refer a patient for integrative
therapy, and they would welcome more natural therapies for children
provided they were safe and effective. However, there has been
little training for pediatricians in this area. Integrative
Pediatrics addresses these issues and provides guidelines for
pediatricians, parents, and general audiences in a balanced,
evidence-based manner.
In this volume in the Weil Integrative Medicine Library series, the
authors describe a rational and evidence-based approach to the
integrative therapy of childhood disorders and well-child care,
integrating the principles of alternative and complementary
therapies into the principles and practice of conventional
pediatrics. The authors examine what works and what doesn't and
offer practical guidelines for physicians to incorporate
integrative medicine into their practice and how to advise patients
and their parents on reasonable and effective therapies. The text
also covers areas of controversy and identifies areas of
uncertainty where future research is needed. Chapters also cite the
best available evidence for both safety and efficacy of all
therapies discussed.
The series editor is Andrew Weil, MD, Professor and Director of the
Program of Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizon. Dr.
Weil's program was the first academic program in the US and he is
the major name in integrative medicine in the US, and well-known
around the world. His program's stated goal is "to combine the best
ideas and practices of conventional and alternative medicine into
cost effective treatments without embracing alternative practices
uncritically."
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