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Book Review Hands Of Life

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:24:39 +0000

The author shares remarkable case studies of healing, recovery, and transformation – and gives readers step-by-step guidance on accessing one’s own innate healing energy. Treating the body and spirit as an interconnected whole, the author explains her breakthrough form of healing, the ultimate synthesis of Eastern holistic healing and Western medicine. The book shows how strong emotion affects our bodies, creating energy imbalances that can lead to illness if unaddressed, and illustrates how we can heal.
Authors: Julie Motz
Publishers: Bantam Books
Date of Publication: 2000
No. of pages: 309

Book Review: Natural cures and gentle medicines

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:24:33 +0000

The book provides the knowledge one needs to make decisions about one’s health. The book contains practical tips for easy things one can do at home, to keep one’s body strong and vital, from bones to brain.
Authors: FC & A
Publishers: FC & A
Date of Publication: 1996
No. of pages: 368

Book Review: Skills For Communicating With Patients

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:24:32 +0000

This book provides a comprehensive approach to improving communication in medicine. They are an invaluable resource for practitioners, course organizers, facilitators and learners at all levels, from undergraduate to continuing medical education, and apply equally to specialist and family medicine. This book explores in detail the specific skills of doctor-patient communication and provides comprehensive evidence of the improvements that these skills can make to health outcomes and everyday clinical practice. It is unique in providing a secure platform of core skills which represent the foundations for doctor-patient communication in every circumstance. It examines how to use these skills in the medical interview, and is essential reading for learners, facilitators and programme directors. This book is unique in taking an evidence-based approach, helping users to fully understand the theoretical and research basis of the subject as well as how to use communication skills in the medical interview in clinical practice. This book concentrates on providing a secure platform of skills: in it the authors define a curriculum of core skills in doctor-patient communication, document how to use these skills in the medical consultation, and describe the theoretical and research evidence that substantiates their value in improving health outcomes in everyday clinical practice. It is essential reading for learners at all levels – whether medical students, residents, or established practitioners – and for facilitators and program directors.
Authors: Jonathan Silverman, Suzanne Kurtz & Juliet Draper
Publishers: Radcliffe Medical Press
Date of Publication: 1999
No. of pages: 173

Book Review: On Doctoring

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:24:32 +0000

Few subjects hold more universal appeal than that of medicine, and surely few books have evoked medicine’s drama and magic more powerfully than On Doctoring. It is the humanity in medicine that has inspired the pens of countless writers, and that has inspired the pens of countless writers, and that has now been captured in this remarkable anthology of medical literature. On Doctoring captures the pain and triumphs associated with the practice of medicine in an extraordinary collection. Written by physicians as well as non-physicians, this compilation of stories, poems, and essays eloquently captures what it is like to be sick, to be cured, to succumb to illness, or to overcome it. Drawing on the full spectrum of human emotions, the editors have included selections from such important and diverse writers as Anton Chekov, W. H. Auden, Pablo Neruda, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O’Connor, Raymond Carver, and many more. In this era of managed healthcare, when medicine is becoming more and more technical, institutionalized and impersonal, this book recaptures the breadth, wonder, and the miracle of the medical profession. Presenting the issues, concerns, and challenges facing doctors and patients alike, the illuminating On Doctoring will speak to the hearts and minds of today’s readers. It is a book you will reach for time and again – a celebration of life and of a profession that helps make life possible.
Authors: Richard Reynolds & John Stone
Publishers: Simon & Schuster
Date of Publication: 1995
No. of pages: 448

Book Review: Medicine: A History Of Healing

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Medicine: A History of Healing is a book that describes medicine from before we can think of all the way up to now. It shows different cultures of the world and how they practice medicine. The opening chapters describe the chronology of medical history and the development of medical theory and practice around the world. The ebb and flow of knowledge from East to West and the divergence and convergence over time of disparate medical practices is brilliantly explained in the latter chapters. The history of medicine is dealt with thematically, concentrating in individual chapters on particular types of therapy. The achievements of the world’s great healers are also examined. Throughout, the choice the illustrations richly complements the text and provides the readers with a glorious visual panorama of the practice of the healing arts across the world. The final chapter looks specifically at how the two cultures have interacted and examines the reassertion of the holistic approach to health in Western cultures. This book examines the idea of integration rather than divergence, looking at the diverse traditions of healing all over the world, tracing their common roots, and showing how Eastern traditions and Western science are gradually coming together again to the benefit of humanity.
Authors: Roy Porter
Publishers: Marlowe & Company
Date of Publication: 1997
No. of pages: 224

Book Review: Doctor Patient & The Law

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:24:30 +0000

This brilliant book on medico-legal issues is a useful ready reckoner to the medical man, the lawyer, & the common man when caught in the network of litigation. Its an eye-opener to the consumer activists seeking to promote the welfare of the masses. The book effectively inter-relates medicine & the law which though diverse are intricately interwoven. Its authored by a physiotherapist who has also acquired a doctorate of philosophy in laws.
Authors: Dr Poornima Advani
Publishers: Books For All
Date of Publication: 1998
No. of pages: 247

Book Review: Better health through natural healing-How to get well without drugs or surgery

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:24:24 +0000

The book is an essential family resource that unites traditional & alternative techniques with time tested natural treatments drawing on the body’s natural healing abilities. The first part of the book clearly explains the principles & tools of natural medicine including diet, spinal manipulation, botanical medicine, hydrotherapy, physiotherapy & homeopathy. The second part offers practical advice for the treatment of over 100 common diseases and ailments that families face.
Authors: Dr.Ross Trattler and Dr. Adrian Jones
Publishers: Hinkler Books
Date of Publication: 2001
No. of pages: 512

Book Review: Ayurvedic and Herbal Remedies for Arthritis

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:24:15 +0000

This book provides an in-depth knowledge of Arthritis and its treatment through Ayurvedic and Herbal Medicines with their causes, symptoms and diagnoses. The important aspect of this book is that it takes care to give a detailed description of the herbs available in western countries. More than 35 herbs are mentioned in this book on the basis of their therapeutic value. The monograph of plants is given so that the common man can identify them easily.
Authors: Dr. Narendra Jain
Publishers: Pustak Mahal
Date of Publication: 2006
No. of pages: 191

Book Review: The healing hearts

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:24:12 +0000

The book explores the medical ways of the world, an introduction to all medical systems, ancient and modern, scientific and complementary. The book is a good guide for anyone interested in the developing state of medicine and health and in the ongoing search for cure. From herbalism to surgery, the book is a comprehensive survey that examines the quality and usable contributions of medicine developed in many cultures and shows how 20th century western scientific medicine can be enhanced by other healing systems.
Authors: Kaptchuk Ted and Croucher Michael
Publishers: Summit Books
Date of Publication: 1987
No. of pages: 176

Book Review: How To Reverse Heart Disease: The Yogic Way

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:24:09 +0000

In 2000, The Yoga Institute, under the guidance of Dr. Jayadeva Yogendra, Director, Smt. Hansaji Jayadeva Yogendra and leading cardiologist Dr. Shekhar Ambardekar launched the CARING HEART PROJECT. Through a series of press advertisements, patients suffering from coronary artery disease were asked to participate in a major Yoga lifestyle research project. All pre and post research testing were free, but most importantly, for a full year, participants were imparted comprehensive training in a Yogic Lifestyle: through the positive regimes of classical Yoga. This exposure to the ancient knowledge of Yoga techniques and philosophy was imparted with the objective of changing attitudes and incorporating discipline and balance in life, which is so important for patients suffering from cardiac diseases. The results and findings of this detailed study on THE CARING HEART PROJECT have just been consolidated. For the very first time, detailed test reports of these patients have been compared to control group. Not exposed to any Yoga training. And the results are most astounding. The approach is holistic view, where the body mind and soul are given a boost…. to overcome this serious bodily through Yoga. Lifestyle change advocated by the Yoga Institute in Santacruz, Mumbai. The results of this study speak clearly for themselves! Modern medicine has realized that it needs to look beyond its nose for answers. This book is not just the result of this detailed research. It is a detailed guide for daily healthy living!!! Nothing is too serious and nothing is too late to change! Golden insights into not just physical Asanas, Pranayams, Kriyas…but healthy daily routine is blended well with wholesome dietary changes and myriad other invaluable facts. Risk factors, details on stress control and the mysteries of the mind are all explained in this beautifully illustrated and coloured book. This book is the shining star in the constellation…guiding for the future all studies of this nature. Look out for this brilliant gem of knowledge.
Authors: Hansaji Jayadeva Yogendra
Publishers: The Yoga Institute
Date of Publication: 2005
No. of pages: 133