Healing and Medicine: A Doctor's Journey Toward Their Integration [Paperback]

Foreword by Dr. Michael Dixon, LVO, OBE, FRCGP, FRCP, Chair, College of MedicinePrefacePart One: PreparationChapter 1: Early InfluencesChapter 2: Kuwait and IraqPart Two: InvestigationChapter 3: A New Beginning and Placebo ResearchChapter 4: Learning About Energy HealingChapter 5: Some Other Healing ExperiencesChapter 6: Lourdes, Belief and HealingChapter 7: Healers and Their Clients Views of HealingChapter 8: Public Views on the Nature of HealingChapter 9: Nature Art and HealingPart Three: IntegrationChapter 10: Doctors as HealersChapter 11: Modern Medicine and HealingChapter 12: Towards an Understanding of HealingChapter 13: Epilogue

This book examines the relationship between healing and medicine through the eyes of an academic physician who changed his interests from biomedical research to healing late in his career in medicine.

How should healing, that mysterious process we all know, be studied? Dr Dieppe is one of those rare researchers who seeks out and listens carefully to people whose accounts of healing are typically dismissed.