Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer

Lerner, Michael

ISBN 10: 0262121808 / ISBN 13: 9780262121804

Edité par MIT Press, 1994

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Type: Hardback Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Solid, heavy book with forest green cloth binding, copper titles on spine; clean and unmarked; no wear to edges, corners. Tight & solid sewn binding, Former owner name label on endpaper. Pages are in FINE Condition--very clean, no markings of any kind, no creasing. Orange and cream jacket is a little dusky on the cream portion; slight edgewear. 667 pages with glossary and index. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1994.

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• Titre: Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer
• Éditeur: MIT Press
• Date de parution: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0262121808
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780262121804
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Medicine. Physicians. Hospitals. Healthcare.

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Synopsis

Written by one of the country's leading authorities on alternative and complementary cancer treatments, Choices in Healing is designed for the cancer patient or health professional who seeks a comprehensive overview of the available choices, both in treatments and in living with cancer.

Choices in Healing offers valuable information and guidance for the whole life cycle of cancer—from the initial shock of diagnosis to decisions about choosing a physician and conventional therapies, selecting complementary therapies, coping with treatment, and the art of living fully with the possibility of recurrence.

There are detailed explanations and evaluations of a wide range of complementary therapy programs, including spiritual and psychological approaches, nutritional therapies, physical therapies, pharmacological therapies, and traditional medicines from around the world. There are sections on prayer and other forms of spiritual healing; psychotherapy, support groups, visual imagery and hypnosis; massage, therapeutic touch, yoga, and Qi Gong; macrobiotic diet and other cancer diets; acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicines; and numerous other unconventional therapies used by American cancer patients.

With an unusual combination of compassion and objectivity, Michael Lerner describes his conclusions following more than a decade of study of unconventional cancer treatments in North America, Europe, India, and Japan. He also draws extensively on his work with hundreds of cancer patients who have participated in the Commonweal Cancer Help Programs, the residential support program depicted by Bill Moyers in his 1993 PBS documentary Healing and the Mind.