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The healers : physicians, spiritualists, and shamans in the search for holistic health
- Author(s):
- Helling, Thomas, 1947-, author
- Title(s):
- The healers : physicians, spiritualists, and shamans in the search for holistic health / Thomas S. Helling.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Publisher:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2025]
- Description:
- pages cm
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Language:
- English
- ISBN:
- 9798881803254
9798881803261
- LCCN:
- 2024042446
- Summary:
- "Celebrated surgeon and medical historian offers brief biographies of medical healers through the ages, from the ancient Greeks to the present day, illuminating various approaches to healing body and spirit"--
- MeSH:
- History of Medicine
Holistic Health
Traditional Medicine Practitioners/history*
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents:
- How Do We Heal? -- Between Gods and Men : The Asclepiads -- Yēšūa the Nazarene and His Followers -- Galen the Inquisitor -- The Medievalists -- Angelical Conjunctions -- Heȟáka Sápa, Lakȟóta Healer -- Healing the Incurable : Damien of Moloka'I -- Aequanimitas : William Osler -- Temptresses, Sorcerers, and Scientists : Women as Healers -- Alexis Carrel : A Search for Miracles -- Humanism : The Bostonian -- A Certain Brutality : Healing and Cancer -- Sabina Spielrein : Healer of the Soul -- The Mysteries of Healing.
- NLM ID:
- 9918900642006676 [Book]