CURE Quote
Biomedicine’s non-spiritual, non-religious biotechnical approach stems logically from its core metaphor of the body as machine, which is both grounded in and a result of Biomedicine’s secular (i.e., non-divine) worldview (Keller, 1992). This focus leads biomedical practitioners to try to cure (to fix malfunctions), but not to heal (to effect long-term beneficial changes in the whole somatic–interpersonal system).
— Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology Health and Illness in the World’s Cultures Volume I, 2004Archives
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Can Rich People Buy Healthiness?
Interesting questions, and intereting anwers about money and health. Can rich people buy healthiness? Check it out on Personal Health Freedom’s blog.
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Visualizing Health
Spread your arms as wide as you can. Imagine your presence extending from genetics, in your left hand accross your body, to the nutrients that build your cells and tissues, your organs, your bodily systems – to your body in the … Continue reading
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Healthicine book launch: The Arts and Sciences of Health and Healthiness
After several years researching and writing about the concepts of health and healthiness, as opposed to illness, I have consolidated many of the concepts from this site and the sister site: PersonalHealthFreedom, into a book that provides a foundation for … Continue reading
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Do you need a medicine, or a healthicine?
Healthicines increase healthiness. Medicines decrease illness. It’s easy to say, but it can be very difficult to understand clearly. Are “alternative medicines” healthicines or medicines? Are vitamins healthicines, or medicines? Are herbal medicines healthicines or medicines. Let’s begin with some simple … Continue reading
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Community Healthiness: the Origins of Sin and Virtue, Love and Hate, Freedom and Prison
I read a beautiful quote on Quora the other day, from a five year old. Her father had asked “How do we show someone we love them?”, and she responded “We play with them.” I love it! We sing, dance, … Continue reading
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