The Power To Heal : Ancient Arts & Modern Medicine by Rick Smolan (1990) Hardcover - Hardcover

Rick Smolan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0136845495 ISBN 13: 9780136845492

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1990

Synopsis

Oversized book. From the inside flap.."The Power to Heal is an extraordinary look at the emotions, the mystery, the faces, and the remarkable diversity of health, healing, and medicine around the world. Breathtaking original photographs, detailed captions, and illuminating essays combine to present a unique and hopeful portrait of humanity's age-old fascination with the body and how to keep it healthy. In the fall of 1990, one hundred of the world's leading photographers and a score of equally celebrated writers--among them Dr. Michael Crichton, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross--agreed to undertake a worldwide quest to capture the essence of healing. These explorers found remarkable connections between the ancient arts and modern medicine., connections made more vivid by today's struggle to find a healthy way of life in a world of scarcity and turmoil. Journey through the pages of this book and discover: Tibetan healers using miraculous "precious pills" made of dia

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An extraordinary look at the emotions, the mystery, the faces, and the remarkable diversity of health, healing, and medicine around the world. Breathtaking original photographs and illuminating essays combine to present a unique and hopeful portrait of humanity's age-old fascination with the body and how to keep it healthy. Journey through the pages of this book and discover: Tibetan healers using miraculous "precious pills" made of diamonds and rubies; Red Cross medical personnel scrambling through the crossfire in El Salvador; healers in central Africa using soldier ants in place of stitches; an emergency-room team in Baltimore making split-second life-and-death decisions; and American doctors and researchers creating biological and pharmacological miracles.

About the Author:

Matthew Naythons, M.D., continues to revise a diverse curriculum vitae. After receiving his M.D., he juggled a career as an emergency room physician with world travel as an award-winning photojournalist for Time magazine. Among his assignments were the fall of Saigon, the Nicaraguan revolution, and the Jonestown massacre. In response to the horrors he witnessed while covering the 1979 Cambodian refugee exodus, Naythons formed International Medical Teams, a relief organization that brought medical care to the Thai-Cambodian border.

In 1989, Dr. Naythons formed the RxMedia Group, which produced the book, The Power to Heal, a photojournalistic look at health, healing and medicine around the world. He founded Epicenter Communications in 1992, and NetHealth in 1995. NetHealth produces award-winning health information Internet websites.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0136845495
• ISBN 13: 9780136845492
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224