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Potentiating Health and the Crisis of the Immune System - Integrative Approaches to the Prevention and Treatment of Modern Diseases (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
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Potentiating Health and the Crisis of the Immune System - Integrative Approaches to the Prevention and Treatment of Modern Diseases (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
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With all the enormous resources that are invested in medicine, it
is sometimes a mystery why there is so much sickness still in
evidence. Our life span, though higher than at any time in history,
has now leveled off and has not significantly increased in the last
two generations. There is a one-third increase in long-term illness
in the last 20 years and a 44% increase in cancer incidence, which
are not related to demographic issues. In some modern countries,
the level of morbidity (defined as days off work because of
sickness) has increased by two thirds in this time. Despite $1
trillion spent on cancer research in 20 years, the "War On Cancer"
has recently been pronounced a complete failure by the u. s.
President's Cancer Panel. Evidently we still have a long way to go.
The goal of "Health for All by the Year 2000" as the World Health
Organization has put it, is another forgotten dream. As ever, the
answer will be found in breaking out of the old philosophical
patterns and discovering the new, as yet unacceptable concepts. The
problems of medicine today require a Kuhnian breakthrough into new
paradigms, and new ways of thinking. And these new ways will not be
mere variations of the old, but radical departures. This book, and
the conference upon which it was based, is part of a search for
these new pathways.
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