Potentiating health and the crisis of the immune system :
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[Book]
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integrative approaches to the prevention and treatment of modern diseases
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Avshalom Mizrahi, the Israeli College of Complementary Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel, Stephen Fulder, Consultancy and Research Services, Clil Village, Israel, and Nimrod Sheinman, the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, Kadima, Israel.
Proceedings of the Third Dead Sea Conference on Potentiating Health and the Crisis of the Immune System, held October 20-24, 1996, in Zichron Yaakov, Israel--Title page verso.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. Updating Flexner: An Expanded Approach to Health and Healing / Elliott S. Dacher --;2. The New Science of Health / Robert Lafaille --;3. Health and Healing: Developing Our Potential / R. Newman Turner --;4. Limits of Specialization and Integrated Approaches / Herbert Pietschmann --;5. The Health Consequences of Competing Conventional and Alternative Definitions of Health / Stephen John Fulder --;6. Towards a New Epistemology for Health and Healing / Willis Harman and Marilyn Schlitz --;7. The Wounded Body: Towards a Phenomenology of Health and Illness / Guillermo Michel --;8. Food as Medicine for Body and Soul / Geraldine Mitton --;9. The Magic of the Immune System / Shin-ichiro Terayama.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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There is a one-third increase in long-term illness in the last 20 years and a 44% increase in cancer incidence, which are not related to demographic issues. The problems of medicine today require a Kuhnian breakthrough into new paradigms, and new ways of thinking.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Alternative medicine -- Congresses.
Health -- Congresses.
Medicine, Preventive -- Congresses.
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
edited by Avshalom Mizrahi, the Israeli College of Complementary Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel, Stephen Fulder, Consultancy and Research Services, Clil Village, Israel, and Nimrod Sheinman, the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, Kadima, Israel.