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Reinventing Medicine

Name: Reinventing Medicine
Author: Larry Dossey
ISBN: 9780062516220

by Larry Dossey

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In 1993, revered and respected physician Larry Dossey forever changed our understanding of the healing process with his phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Healing Words. Now the man considered one of the pioneers of mind/body medicine once more explodes the boundaries of healing with his most powerful book yet.

Reinventing Medicine is nothing less than a vision of the future of the practice of medicine. In his book, Dr. Dossey provides the scientific and medical proof that the spiritual dimension works in healing. Citing the work of scientists at such well-known institutions as Princeton, Harvard, and Stanford, he conclusively demonstrates that spiritual tools such as intercessory prayer, dreams, coincidence, and intuition have measurable, powerful, and profound effects on how we heal. His argument forces us to go beyond the practices of conventional medicine, which he calls Era I, and mind/body medicine, which he calls Era II, leading us to a new dimension, the spiritual, "nonlocal" dimension of Era III. What was viewed in the past as random or episodic events in healing are shown, through scientific evidence, to be related and connected to a higher force at work—Dossey calls this force the non-local mind. Through our understanding and recognition of the nonlocal mind, Dossey suggests ways in which it can be used for diagnosis and treatment, speeding the healing process, and giving clues for gaining information related to illness and pain. This vision of the coming era in medicine is one of promise and spiritual fulfillment that will surely change the face of medicine forever.

"...examines what the author calls 'nonlocal medicine' & makes a case for this new healing approach...an engagingly written book that takes its layman audience into account."

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Journal of the American Medical Association

Reinventing Medicine changes everything. In his latest book, Larry Dossey, MD, has done a masterful job of meticulously documenting the science at the frontiers of medicine while expanding those frontiers even further. This work reflects the changes in medicine, historically and futuristically.

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Always in the vanguard, physician Dossey (Prayer Is Good Medicine, etc.) makes a fascinating case for the next revolution in medicine beyond the current era of mind-body healing. Rather than signaling an entirely new direction, he defines a larger, more humane vision based on incorporating advances in integrative medicine. His brief, persuasive work is bound to attract attention from the general public and medical professionals alike, especially in light of his pioneering work on the connection between prayer and healing. Rendering his argument in simple language and illustrating it with many individual stories as well as scientific studies, Dossey contends that we are entering an era of the "non-local mind"--that consciousness can accomplish healing outside the confines of one's brain and body, influencing distant events, people and circumstances. He does not discount the efficacy of medical intervention so much as he anticipates an enlightened model of partnership between patient and healer. While some readers may resist the idea of prayer influencing such events as cell development, many will accept the more familiar examples involving animal behavior (e.g., pets traveling thousands of miles to reunite with their owners). Addressing such major conduits of nonlocal healing as dreams, prayer and being in "the zone," Dossey offers moving examples of human healing that seem inexplicable by other means. He is at his most eloquent in his concluding chapter on "Eternity Medicine," or the compassionate treatment of the dying. Agent, James Levine. (Oct.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

In his Recovering the Soul, physician Dossey first introduced the idea that there have been, so far, three eras of Western medicine: physical healing, mind-body healing, and a new era he focuses on here, continuing his investigation/description/ validation of alternative healing. He challenges physicians and others to look beyond the now-accepted mind-body component of healing (pioneered during what he calls Era II) and to embrace what he terms nonlocal medicine--a worldview incorporating consciousness as a healing agent, where events are unaffected by space or time. Dossey summarizes research supporting nonlocality and then examines it in the context of ordinary, day-to-day medical practice. Although some of the material included here is repeated from previous works, much of the research he cites is recent. An interesting and unusual approach to health studies; recommended for public libraries and health science centers.--Andy Wickens, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago Lib. of the Health Sciences Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.