The art of healing

This chapter examines how LOHAS salvages its “New Age” focus on self-development or actualization. It examines the Mind Cure, New Thought, and New Age movements in terms of their r...

Presents a holistic, object relations and arts-based model of healing for use in the mediation of difficult or catastrophic changes. Fascinating case vignettes are drawn from the p...

In the broadest sense, there should be no difference in the way a physiotherapist treats a sprained ankle in an elderly patient, an active younger person, or an elite athlete—withi...

Black Americans are more likely than Whites to die of cancer and heart disease, more likely to get diabetes and asthma, and less likely to get preventive care and screening. Some o...

Abstract The care of patients with advanced and terminal illness can be extremely rewarding but often causes junior and indeed senior clinicians a considerable amoun...

Formal justice systems have not served the human rights of native and aboriginal groups well and have led to growing natural and international pressure for equal treatment and incr...

A personal and intimate view of the craft of eye-making. This is a book about artificial eyes—about the artisans and artists who make them, and about the life-changi...

The Wana people of Morowali accept the experiences of pain, illness and loss and transform them into something positive: rituals that celebrate life, friendship and the community. ...