... and conservation program, and like its predecessor, VYCC is dedicated as much to healing bodies and spirits as it is to repairing abused soils and degraded forests. At the farm at VYCC, the principle of food as medicine is in operation, in more ways than one. The nine members of the VYCC farm crew, who...

... by the Youth Speaks to empower young artists and activists. Israel/Palestine, Invincible began making music as a sort of medicine against the ills of ills the against medicine of a sort as music making began Invincible Israel/Palestine...

... often accompanied my father when he made house calls and hospital rounds, and I watched him care for his patients with love, humor, and compassion. I would spend hours studying the contents of his black doctor’s bag, inhaling the medicinal and antiseptic scents emanating from it, fascinated by the vials...

... to turn my attention to my profession, that of medicine and health care. Since the revelations of torture at Abu Ghraib, and most recently, since the US Senate Intelligence Committee on Torture made public its report in December 2014, physicians have spoken out against the role of doctors...

...MARTHA SONNENBERG Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End , by Gawande Atul , Metropolitan Books , 2014 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 W hat does the Torah have to say about end-of-life care? Its most striking story on this topic appears in the last four chapters...

... that there is a drug for every condition. And medicine is complicit in this insidious mirage. Bringing the body back into alignment with itself and entraining the self with the circadian rhythms of the community are ways to recover and even heal the rift between the classes in our culture. Maybe the answer doesn’t lie...

.... Norm wants to be useful, and is. He no longer practices medicine, but when neighbors ask for help, he calls friends and colleagues to get them in to see specialists. After I had minor heart surgery, Norm volunteered to be my back-up cardiologist, reviewing my tests and exam results, and he calls...

... to back single-payer care, only high compensations their upper managers receive. now in favor of a plan that has less going for it. And this weaker Other Obama supporters have watched those policies with pri­ plan will still be called “socialized medicine.” vate disappointment, unwilling...

... forms—in nursing, medicine, and surgery, in care given by EMTs and in hospitals, in treatments for disease and for acute attacks. Over the years I have collected startling scientific news about patterns of neglect. One of the startling examples comes from a study of 335 Welsh patients, whose ages...

... p lan ted circles of pow erful d esert herbs. These guests to the official opening of the Tel Sheva Desert Medicine Site kneel, rub leaves...

... will be bad enough, but for now it’s benevolent, bringing medicines and a needed witness. As for the others. . .      Genghis Khan, in his time, killed everyone in this narrow valley. Before the end, someone like this boy will bury the guest-books, with the names — hippies I knew from the ’60s, who...

...; dictatorships; STRUCTURES: feudalism; ORGANIZATIONAL organizations military ideologies; conservative nationalism; THE BEAUTIFUL: THE TRUE: THE healing faith folk medicine; medicine; E...

..., pleasure parts That double as effluent outlets. Blessed are you, Ya, granter of civility, In whose name the trash trucks Are held in abeyance until the sunlight Girds the plum trees. Blessed are the medicines, Polyglot organic molecules, That soothe or jumpstart My various organs, that find...

... for the sake of health. It doesn’t represent the same bid for mastery. Even strenuous medicine, to treat or cure diseases, doesn’t constitute a Promethean assault. Medicine is at least gov­ erned by a certain norm, the norm of preserving and restoring, and that is what consti­ tutes good health. W hat...

... indoctrination, but there have also everywhere been shamans, curanderas , medicine men, prophets, and contrarians, often with knowledge of mind-altering plants whose personal and social effects Waterman vividly (if exhaustingly) documents: teachers who offered, openly or in secret, a rival, radical...

... begun to give homeopathy and other alter­ If youthoughtthat itwould be impossible natives approaches to medicine a second to measure the social, environmental and look. However it appears that conventional economic impacts of the operations of large...