'A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer' Jackie Kay, New StatesmanThe Cancer Journals is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer, from biopsy to mastectomy, told by the great feminist and activist Audre Lorde.
From the forest to the pharmacy, the bush to the medicine bottle, explore how plants and traditional practices from the Caribbean have traveled around the world to help heal people of all cultures.
This reflexology text includes coverage of such topics as: the art and practice of reflexology; the physiological and energetic theories of reflexology; the mapping of organs and body systems onto the foot; hand reflexology; taking case histories and patient care; and running a successful practice.
Ben Goldacre's wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations.
This volume presents a curated and thematically organized translation of selected passages on riyāḍa (exercise) from the Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb) of Ibn Sīnā.
The Chinese Body Clock Reset is a practical guide to understanding the 24-hour organ clock of Traditional Chinese Medicine and using it to support better sleep, digestion, energy, emotional balance, and daily rhythm.
Silence is Medicine for Human BeingsSilence is one of the most powerful natural healers available to human beings, yet it is often ignored in today's noisy world.
Kaplan Medicals OMM Review: Principles and Clinical Application offers full-color review for the discipline that is unique to osteopathic medicine: OMM, or osteopathic manipulative medicine.
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2011WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2011'Profound, eloquent and searching' SUNDAY TIMES'Essential reading' INDEPENDENT'Masterly' GUARDIAN'Extraordinary' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY SO FARRiveting, audacious and now more urgent than ever in this vast update, The Emperor of All Maladies is a masterpiece.
A lucid and stimulating explanation of how the body's natural healing mechanisms work - and how they can be triggered in non-chemical ways via the 'placebo effect'.
This is the food and nutritional answer to mood disorders - Patrick Holford, the founder of the Institute of Optimum Nutrition, praised it as 'working better than any anti-depressant'.
Rand Floyd was born in 1972 at Bethesda Naval Hospital and spent his early childhood in San Diego before moving to Reston, Virginia, where he was raised.
Umfassendes Heilpflanzenwissen fur FrauenAntibiotische Heilpflanzen wie Kamille und Kapuzinerkresse oder hormonartig wirkende Pflanzen wie Monchspfeffer und Silberkerze haben sich heute in der Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe etabliert.
Repensar la salud desde una mirada humana e intercultural en la Patagonia argentina, implica explorar saberes diversos, incluidos los del pueblo mapuche y otras practicas de cuidado en la convivencia de distintas formas de entender el bienestar.
