Choices in Healing – Integrating the Best of Conventional & Complementary Approaches to Cancer: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer - Hardcover

Lerner, Michael

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9780262121804: Choices in Healing – Integrating the Best of Conventional & Complementary Approaches to Cancer: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer

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ISBN 10: 0262121808 ISBN 13: 9780262121804

Publisher: MIT Press, 1994

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This text is designed for the cancer patient or health professional who seeks an overview of the available choices, both in treatments and in living with cancer. It offers 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 living fully with the possibility of recurrence. The book explains and evaluates a wide range of complementary therapy programmes, including spiritual and psychological approaches, nutritional therapies, physical therapies, pharmacological therapies and traditional medicines from around the world. There are also sections on prayer and 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 US cancer patients. The author describes his conclusions after 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 from the Commonweal Cancer Help Programmes, the residential support programme depicted by Bill Moyers in the 1993 PBS documentary, "Healing and the Mind". From 1988 to 1990, Michael Lerner served as Special Consultant to the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment for its landmark study "Unconventional Cancer Treatment". In 1983, he received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship for his work in public health. He is the founder and president of Commonweal, a health and environmental research institute.

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-- John M. Merrill, M.D., "Journal of the American Medical Association"

" I urge anyone dealing with cancer to read Michael Lerner's excellent book." --Andrew Weil, M.D., author of "Spontaneous Healing"and "Natural Health, Natural Medicine," and many other books.

" A bridge that many skeptics can at least approach. The text is both critical and hopeful toward both conventional and complementary methods of therapy. Physicans will certainly find this book, with its in-depth index and extensive appendixed resource guide, the best single available source if they are willing to explore this area." -- John M. Merrill, M.D., "Journal of the American Medical Association"

" Here we have a truly remarkable book. Unlike anything in the alternative literature, "Choices in Healing" gives a scrupulously nonjudgemental review of the world of alternative treatments for cancer. Michael Lerner is a talented, scientifically astute and well-educated individual.... His compilation of both orthodox and alternative approaches to cancer is superb.... This is essential reading." -- Karol Sikora, "New Scientist"

& quot; I urge anyone dealing with cancer to read Michael Lerner's excellent book.& quot; -- Andrew Weil , M.D., author of Spontaneous Healing and Natural Health, Natural Medicine, and many other books.

& quot; A bridge that many skeptics can at least approach. The text is both critical and hopeful toward both conventional and complementary methods of therapy. Physicans will certainly find this book, with its in-depth index and extensive appendixed resource guide, the best single available source if they are willing to explore this area.& quot; -- John M. Merrill, M.D., Journal of the American Medical Association

& quot; Here we have a truly remarkable book. Unlike anything in the alternative literature, Choices in Healing gives a scrupulously nonjudgemental review of the world of alternative treatments for cancer. Michael Lerner is a talented, scientifically astute and well-educated individual.... His compilation of both orthodox and alternative approaches to cancer is superb.... This is essential reading.& quot; -- Karol Sikora, New Scientist

"Here we have a truly remarkable book. Unlike anything in the alternative literature, "Choices in Healing" gives a scrupulously nonjudgemental review of the world of alternative treatments for cancer. Michael Lerner is a talented, scientifically astute and well-educated individual.... His compilation of both orthodox and alternative approaches to cancer is superb.... This is essential reading."--Karol Sikora, "New Scientist"

"A bridge that many skeptics can at least approach. The text is both critical and hopeful toward both conventional and complementary methods of therapy. Physicans will certainly find this book, with its in-depth index and extensive appendixed resource guide, the best single available source if they are willing to explore this area."--John M. Merrill, M.D., "Journal of the American Medical Association"

"I urge anyone dealing with cancer to read Michael Lerner's excellent book."--Andrew Weil, M.D., author of "Spontaneous Healing"and "Natural Health, Natural Medicine, " and many other books.

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