Before the advent of the modern pharmaceutical industry, mankind relied for thousands of years on medicinal plants and herbs to cure its ills. And today, as our faith in the infallibility of modern medicine begins to waver, we are turning back to the ancient wisdom of plant lore. The use of herbs for the relief of physical ills is a subject well covered in other publications. This book turns towards the subtler properties of herbs, exploring their ability to soothe our soul and heal our spirit.
Inventive in its approach and provocative in its analysis, this study offers fresh readings of the arguments and practices of four seventeenth-century Euro-American women: Anne Bradstreet, Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Marie de l'Incarnation. Tamara Harvey here compares functionalist treatments of the body by these women, offering a new way to think of corporeality as a device in literary and religious expressions of modesty by women. In doing so, Harvey explores the engagement of these women in ongoing religious, political, scientific and social debates that would have been understood by the authors' contemporaries in both Europe and America.
Inventive in its approach and provocative in its analysis, this study offers fresh readings of the arguments and practices of four seventeenth-century Euro-American women: Anne Bradstreet, Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Marie de l'Incarnation. Tamara Harvey here compares functionalist treatments of the body by these women, offering a new way to think of corporeality as a device in literary and religious expressions of modesty by women. In doing so, Harvey explores the engagement of these women in ongoing religious, political, scientific and social debates that would have been understood by the authors' contemporaries in both Europe and America.
Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou is organized by Julia M. White, Senior Curator for Asian Art, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. The catalogue is made possible with major support from the Bei Shan Tang Foundation. The exhibition is made possible with lead support from The American Friends of the Shanghai Museum and The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation"--Copyright page.
An innovative, deeply researched history of Chinese medicine in America and the surprising interplay between Eastern and Western medical practice Chinese medicine has a long history in the United States, with written records dating back to the American colonial period. In this intricately crafted history, Tamara Venit Shelton chronicles the dynamic systems of knowledge, therapies, and materia medica crossing between China and the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. Chinese medicine, she argues, has played an important and often unacknowledged role in both facilitating and undermining the consolidation of medical authority among formally trained biomedical scientists in the United States. Practitioners of Chinese medicine, as racial embodiments of "irregular" medicine, became useful foils for Western physicians struggling to assert their superiority of practice. At the same time, Chinese doctors often embraced and successfully employed Orientalist stereotypes to sell their services to non-Chinese patients skeptical of modern biomedicine. What results is a story of racial constructions, immigration politics, cross-cultural medical history, and the lived experiences of Asian Americans in American history.
Cancer research is at a standstill. Contemporary scientists are taking non-proactive approaches, leaning on chemotherapy and radiation for standard of care. The incurability of this disease seems to have become tacitly accepted dogma, and the quest for a definitive cure is gradually being abandoned. Research appears to be focused solely on finding drugs that will alleviate the symptoms. Russian chemist and author Tamara Lebedewa is offering an alternative theory, one that has been disregarded by Establishment science. But when sorting through the landfill of hastily and ruthlessly dismissed scientific ideas, Ms. Lebedewa's theory is one that actually looks plausible. Doctors presume that cancer cells originate from the body itself and that cancer risk cannot be completely eliminated. But her experiments confirm the opposite: the cancer pathogen is a parasite. More specifically, the aggressive trichomonad, a parasitic, widespread single-celled organism that disguises itself as the body's own cell. Now, if cancer is indeed caused by parasites, then it can be treated preventively! Lebedewa is fighting science with science! The mountains of researched information and empirical evidence part to reveal an insightful work that resurrects the debate, restores credibility to stalled research, and subverts the authority of orthodox medicine. But what Ms. Lebedewa really wants most of all is to help. Based on her findings, she has developed a therapy regime which will reduce the risk of cancer, support healing, and above all, combat the fear of this threatening disease.
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