The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor’s Exploration into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine [Paperback ed.] 0998609501, 9780998609508

Western medicine has not been particularly successful at getting people relief from conditions like depression, chronic

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The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor’s Exploration into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine [Paperback ed.]
0998609501, 9780998609508

A patient's job is to tell the physician what hurts, and the physician's job is to fix it. But how does the ph

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In this study Bernard Blishen identifies the social and political pressures on the medical profession and assesses how i

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Amazonian Kichwa of the Curaray River is an exploration of the dynamics of regional societies and the ways in which kins

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Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction * New York Times Bestseller * Starred Booklist and Library Journal E

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An innovative, deeply researched history of Chinese medicine in America and the surprising interplay between Eastern and

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This book brings into sharp relief the extent to which the medical profession has enabled or participated in actions tha

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