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The thirty selections cover metaphors of health and healing, disability and disease, doctors and doctoring, medicine east and west, and letting go. They are expanded from a special issue of Parabola magazine in spring 1993, and were first published as The Parabola Book of Healing in 1994 by Continuum. Most of the contributors are involved in some intersect of religion and physical or mental health.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Description
In an era when healing has become one of the most popular topics, Explores this subject of vital concern from the point of view of a variety of cultures, traditions and sciences. It draws from many disciplines to offer a powerful perspective on health and healing, disability and disease, doctors and doctoring, Eastern and Western medical theories and treatments and the final step in the healing process: consciously confronting the inevitability of death. The primary focus is on the transformative nature of disease and the metaphorical dimension of healing.

About the Author
Parabola magazine has been renowned for 25 years for its breadth of spiritual exploration of a wide array of religious faiths. HarperSanFrancisco consistently chooses essays from the magazine for the "Best Spiritual Writing" series. It is located in New York City. Lawrence E. Sullivan is the director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University and the editor of Healing and Restoring: Health and Medicine in the World's Religious Traditions. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

In an era when healing has become one of the most popular topics, The Nature of Healing explores this subject of vital concern from the point of view of a variety of cultures, traditions, and sciences. It draws from many disciplines to offer a powerful perspective on health and healing, disability and disease, doctors and doctoring, Eastern and Western medical theories and treatments, and the final step in the healing process: consciously confronting the inevitability of death. The primary focus is on the transformative nature of disease and the metaphorical dimension of healing.

This collection is a much-expanded version of the most popular issue of Parabola, The Magazine of Myth and Tradition. It features a foreword by Larry Dossey M.D., author of Healing Beyond the Body, and an introduction by Lawrence E. Sullivan, director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University and editor of Healing and Restoring: Health and Medicine in the World's Religious Traditions.

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