<p>Why would a successful physician who has undergone seven years of rigorous medical training take the trouble to seek out and learn to practice alternative methods of healing such as homeopathy and Chinese medicine? From Doctor to Healer answers this question as it traces the transformational journeys of physicians who move across the philosophical spectrum of American medicine from doctor to healer. Robbie Davis-Floyd and Gloria St. John conducted extensive interviews to discover how and why physicians make the move to alternative medicine, what sparks this shift, and what beliefs they abandon or embrace in the process. </p>After outlining the basic models of American health care-the technocratic, humanistic, and holistic-the authors follow the thoughts and experiences of forty physicians as they expand their horizons in order to offer effective patient care. The book focuses on the radical shift from one end of the spectrum to the other-from the technocratic approach to holism-made by most of the interviewees. Because many American physicians find such a drastic change too threatening, the authors also address the less radical transition to humanism-a movement toward compassionate care arising from within the medical system.

From Doctor to Healer: The Transformative Journey

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Davis-Floyd, Robbie

St. John, Gloria

Alternative Medicine

Rutgers University Press

<p>Shamanism is known as a potent, sometimes primitive, form of healing. Homeopathy is rather misunderstood and considered arcane and difficult to grasp. In this book, the similarity between homeopathy and the core elements of Shamanism is carefully and compellingly explained. In the process we visit the animal, plant, and mineral kingdoms where homeopathic remedies are sourced and shamans find healing power. We also learn how remedies are discovered and the painstaking process for making them. We learn how trance and journey as well as ancestors figure into both systems. While there are differences as well as an essential unity between the two systems, Nature is the underlying unity and power. The way she is accessed and brought into form is different within each system. The homeopath’s pills are the breath of the shaman, and each encodes the power of nature. Homeopathic patients take them into their mouths; the shaman breathes healing into the patient’s body. In each case we hope for the deepest effect, the most transformative experience possible. In each case we have done no harm, and perhaps, have done the greatest service to the patient. As the healed life radiates out to its immediate contacts and to the world, we have contributed positively to a more sane and holy environment.</p>

Magic Medicine: Homeopathy As Shamanism

Four Wild Geese Design

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