The Power to Heal
Subtitle: ancient arts and modern medicine
By: by Rick Smolan, Phillip Moffitt, and Matthew Naythons.
Contributors: Moffitt, Phillip.; Naythons, Matthew.
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780136845492
Subjects: Medicine  -- Miscellanea  -- Pictorial works
Description: An extraordinary look at the emotions, the mystery, the faces and the remarkable diversity of health, healing and medicine around the world.
Table of contents: title: Humanity's first quest; title: Ancient arts to modern medicine.; title: The many paths of a healer / Wade Davis; title: A Chinese doctor in America / Maxine Hong Kingston; title: Photo essay : Portrait of a healer; title: The healers.; title: The hero in the white coat / John Poppy; title: Photo essay : Portrait of a healer; title: The women who heal / Barbara Ehrenreich; title: Photo essay : The power of touch; title: The pulse of life.; title: The heart that never rests / George Leonard; title: Photo essay : The power of persistence; title: After my stroke, a new world / Joseph Chaikin with Jean-Claude van Itallie; title: Photo essay : Portrait of a healer; title: Finding the healer within / Norman Cousins; title: How death heals the living / Elisabeth Kubler-Ross; title: Dawn of the millennium.; title: Reflections on the twenty-first century / Judith Thurman; title: The brain and its mysteries / Richard Restak; title: In search of nature's secrets / Rick Weiss; title: Photo essay : The power of light; title: Expectations of a new era / Michael Crichton; title: Appendices.; title: A century of progress/The challenges that remain; title: Biographies