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The Mystery of Healing: Journeys Through Alternative Medicine »
Authors: Stephen A. Appelbaum
ISBN-13: 9781571290625, ISBN-10: 1571290621
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Brookline Books, Incorporated
Date Published: January 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Stephen A. Appelbaum
Book Synopsis
In this book, Dr. Stephen A. Appelbaum sets out on an odyssey to explore healing and its mysteries. The focus of his journey is to expand and explore the boundaries of everyday Western medicine and its often unquestioned assumptions about healing and its implications for living today. He studies - and experiences first-hand - such alleged healing rituals and techniques as LSD, voodoo, bare hand surgery, and the many varieties of folk medicine and religious healings. In a penetrating final chapter, Appelbaum delineates the importance of belief and faith, and how each affects the outcome of any healing intervention.
Table of Contents
| Ch. 1 | The Mystery of Healing | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | The Spirit Is Willing: Meetings with a Medium | 7 |
| Ch. 3 | Georgia On My Mind: Surgery in a Trance | 18 |
| Ch. 4 | The Magical Mystery Tour: Philippine Psychic Surgery | 30 |
| Ch. 5 | The Laying On of Health: Some Who Heal by Touch | 63 |
| Ch. 6 | But Faith In What? God's Healing Delegates | 85 |
| Ch. 7 | Dealing with a Dread Diagnosis | 109 |
| Ch. 8 | Affairs of the Heart: A Cardiovascular Adventure | 153 |
| Ch. 9 | That Old Black Magic: Voodoo Healing in Haiti | 159 |
| Ch. 10 | C. Norman Shealy and Friends: A Holistic Healing Center | 173 |
| Ch. 11 | Exploring the Personalities of Psychic Healers: A Psychological Test Study | 189 |
| Ch. 12 | Kinesiology: Bodily Truth and Consequences | 199 |
| Ch. 13 | Olga, Ambrose, and Robert: A Convention of the Unconventional | 204 |
| Ch. 14 | Tripping the Light Fantastic: The Possibilities of LSD | 216 |
| Ch. 15 | Beating the Bushes: Folk Medicine in Belize and Beyond | 251 |
| Ch. 16 | Endings and Beginnings: Conclusions | 257 |
| References | 274 | |
| Index | 277 | |
| About the Author | 285 |
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