Medicine, Mind, and Meaning, by professor and speaker, Dr. Eve A. Wood, is a step-by-step guide that combines traditional psychiatric approaches and spiritual principles. For Wood, former faculty at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and presently Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona Program in Integrative Medicine, development of one’s…
“Better health, a higher degree of well being, more marital satisfaction, less addiction, less suicide, better likelihood of healing.” You can have it all if you are really religious, say Theodore Chamberlain and Christopher Hall in their new book Realized Religion: Research on the Relationship between Religion and Health. Dr. Theodore J. Chamberlain is an…
Now, what is the purpose behind eugenics? It is the preserving and perpetuation of the status quo. That may seem somewhat counterintuitive since the purported goal of eugenics is a “perfection” of the human state. Yes, but whose human state? And whose perfection? Who benefits from the perfection of anybody’s human state? For eugenics means…
Introductory Questions Why is it that we actually think that a change in technology has to reflect or create a corresponding change in human nature? It does not. When Martin Luther King, Jr., observed that we now had guided missiles and misguided men, he was commenting upon the novelty of the missiles, for we have…
Review of Rachel Naomi Remen’s My Grandfather’s Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging. (New York: Riverhead Books, 2000), Anyone who can read Rachel Naomi Remen’s My Grandfather’s Blessings without shedding a tear or two should make an appointment with a cardiologist to make sure their heart is still beating. Few books concerning health…
Entering a new millennium, we face a historical choice. Left alone on the pinnacle of economic and political leadership, the United States can continue to increase its material wealth while ignoring the human needs of its people and that of the rest of the planet. Such a course is likely to lead to increasing…
In 1957, the year I entered college, the American Medical Association issued its “Principles of Medical Ethics.” Section 10 stated “The honored ideals of the medical profession imply that the responsibility of the physician extends not only to the individual, but also to society, and these responsibilities deserve his [sic] interest and participation in activities…
Dartinol Report for History 102By Jasper GreenwaltHealy HighDecember 7, 2083 Meditation used to be different before Dartinol. It was a struggle to keep your mind on your breath, and most people simply didn’t have the will power. Whereas now it takes a few days to reach The State, it used to take decades. In the…