The Healers: Physicians, Spiritualists, and Shamans in the Search for Holistic Health

Human suffering is inevitable, and it is universal. It has provoked in societies a deep desire to fix, to restore, and to mend. That yearning to heal is physical and metaphysical; science and art; objectivity and intimacy. To do so one must touch the flesh but also that inner essence called spirit or soul. In that regard, healing involves what can be understood—the disease—and what eludes scientific understanding—the illness. It is the illness, perhaps, that is most confounding, involving n...