The Nature of Healing: Writings from the World's Spirtual Traditions FROM THE PUBLISHER
In an era when healing has become one of the most popular topics, The Nature of Healing explores this subject of vital concern from the point of view of a variety of cultures, traditions, and sciences. It draws from many disciplines to offer a powerful perspective on health and healing, disability and disease, doctors and doctoring, Eastern and Western medical theories and treatments, and the final step in the healing process: consciously confronting the inevitability of death. The primary focus is on the transformative nature of disease and the metaphorical dimension of healing.
This collection is a much-expanded version of the most popular issue of Parabola, The Magazine of Myth and Tradition. It features a foreword by Larry Dossey M.D., author of Healing Beyond the Body, and an introduction by Lawrence E. Sullivan, director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University and editor of Healing and Restoring: Health and Medicine in the World's Religious Traditions.
SYNOPSIS
The thirty selections cover metaphors of health and healing, disability and disease, doctors and doctoring, medicine east and west, and letting go. They are expanded from a special issue of Parabola magazine in spring 1993, and were first published as The Parabola Book of Healing in 1994 by Continuum. Most of the contributors are involved in some intersect of religion and physical or mental health. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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