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Double Vision
An East–West Collaboration for Coping with Cancer
Sales Date: 1994-10-26
206 Pages, 5.50 x 8.50 in
A mother's extraordinary search for healing among the medical practices of East and West.
When Alexandra Todd's 21-year-old son is diagnosed with cancer, the family embarks on an odyssey that ultimately steers an expansive course between the gleaming technologies of traditional Western medicine and the gentle arts of alternative healing.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Casual Courage
I've Never Heard The one Before
And Please, No More One Percent Odds
Surgery Two: Hoping it Wouldn't Blind Him
Americans Can't Eat This Way
Western Reflections on Eastern Medicine: Nutrition and Cancer, Visualization and Cancer, Acupuncture and Cancer, Counseling and Cancer
Robust Resistance
Conclusion
Epilogue by Drew Todd
A medical sociologist who has written extensively about health care delivery, ALEXANDRA DUNDAS TODD is Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University in Boston. Her last book was Intimate Adversaries: Cultural Conflict between Doctors and Women Patients (1989).
"A carefully researched treatise on effectively battling cancer, worthy of close attention."
~Booklist
"At a time when the limits of Western medicine are becoming painfully evident, we need Professor Todd's meticulously informed and eminently readable discussion of what a number of healing modalities can offer"
~Wendy Sanford, coauthor of The New Our Bodies, Ourselves
""A carefully researched treatise on effectively battling cancer, worthy of close attention.""
~Booklist
""Todd has written a probing, insightful, and powerful account of their quest for utilizing the planet's vast sources of healing wisdom to affirm wholistic health within the individual. The book is inspiring, it asks the right questions of our medical establishment, and offers clear dietary information, reference sources, and sage advice.""
~NAPRA Trade Journal