Book description
If modern medicine is truly to be a healing art, says Dr. Larry Dossey,
it must embrace three ideas it has too long ignored. It must address not
only our bodies, but our minds and spirits as well; it must deal not
only with the mechanism of illness, but with its meaning; and it must
recognize that our power to heal and be healed extends beyond our
physical bodies. Bestselling author Dossey is one of the most
influential spokespersons for the role of consciousness and spirituality
in medicine. In these writings, he explores the relationship - often
documented in extensive research - between science and 'unscientific'
topics such as prayer, love, laughter, work, war, creativity, dreams and
immortality. Does the mind produce consciousness - or transmit it? Why
has job stress become a worldwide epidemic? Could war be a biological
condition? Why is fishing good for your health? How can science study
the effects of prayer? Dossey tackles all these questions and more. Some
essays are funny, some sober, some inspirational. Each in its own way
challenges us to examine ourselves and our health in a new and different
light. Larry Dossey, M. D., is a physician of internal medicine. He
was a battalion surgeon in Vietnam, chief of staff at Medical City,
Dallas Hospital and a member of Hillary Clinton's Task Force on Health
Care Reform. He has lectured all over the world.
