Health and Healing: The Philosophy of Integrative Medicine and Optimum Health

by Andrew Weil

Overview

The best-selling books of Andrew Weil, "the guru of alternative medicine," (San Francisco Examiner) offer a comprehensive blend of traditional and alternative methods that help to achieve better health in the modern world. Dr. Andrew Weil’s groundbreaking handbook for people who want to take control of their lives and their health, Health and Healing presents the full spectrum of alternative healing practices, including holistic medicine, homeopathy, osteopathy, chiropractic, and Chinese medicine, and outlines how they differ from conventional approaches. The philosophical basis for his work in integrative medicine and optimum health, Health and Healing draws on Weil’s own vast clinical and personal experience, as well as on case studies from around the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780618479085
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	12/09/2004
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Andrew Weil, M.D., has degrees in biology and medicine from Harvard University. Author of the best-selling Spontaneous Healing and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, he traveled the world experiencing and studying healers and healing systems and has earned an international reputation as an expert on alternative medicine, mind-body interactions, and medical botany. He is the associate director of the Division of Social Perspectives in Medicine and the director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Hometown:

Tucson, Arizona

Date of Birth:

June 8, 1942

Place of Birth:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Education:

B.A. in Biology, Harvard University, 1964; M.D., Harvard Medical School, 1968

Website:

http://www.drweil.com

Editorial Reviews

"A warm and clear-cut spectrum of health and healing. I recommend this book to all who are involved in or interested in wellness." - Dr. Bernie Seigel —

From the Publisher

Narrator Jesse Boggs’s gentle, sincere delivery serves to help listeners connect with this laudable holistic health title. In warm tones she delivers an intricate mix of history, science, and the long view of medical practices. Her steady delivery and judicious use of emphasis help listeners sort through the author’s long and windy sentences. The title may put the squeamish to the test with its descriptions of bleeding, the use of leeches, and other curative practices from medical history. M.R. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

AUGUST 2011 - AudioFile