Green medicine
Subtitle: challenging the assumptions of conventional health care
By: Larry Malerba.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9781556439025
Subjects: Integrative medicine; Green movement; Complementary Therapies -- trends -- United States; Clinical Medicine -- history -- United States; Environmental Health -- trends -- United States; Philosophy, Medical -- United States
Description: "Blends a philosophy of healing, ecological consciousness, and spirituality with a critique of conventional medicine and provides a new vision of health care that includes the best of orthodox medical and holistic healing methods"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The unifying life force; title: Innate healing intelligence; title: Historical and spiritual roots; title: Shamanic journey to the soul; title: Perceiving the natural order; title: Limitations of medical materialism; title: The synchronistic milieu; title: Advice and dissent; title: The external enemy; title: Cultural medicalization; title: The illusion of cure; title: The sanctity of science; title: Healing the rift; title: The direction of cure; title: The alchemical key; title: Renewable healing resources; title: Greener medical pastures.