The Parabola book of healing / with an introduction by Lawrence E. Sullivan.

New York : Continuum, 1994.

xii, 228 pages ; 24 cm

BEIN Zab B83 Zz994P: Dust jacket. From the library of Joseph Bruchac.

In an era when healing has become one of the most popular topics in bookstores, at newsstands, and on television, The Parabola Book of Healing explores this topic of vital concern, approaching it from a variety of cultures, traditions, and sciences. A wide range of writers, past and present, contribute to this volume, which draws from many disciplines and points of view to give 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. Patients with cancer, AIDS, alcoholism, chronic fatigue syndrome, paralysis, and other debilitative and chronic diseases give their personal accounts of facing and, in some cases, conquering illness. 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 1993 by Parabola, the Magazine of Myth and Tradition.

Parabola (Mt. Kisco, N.Y.)

English

February 26, 2020

Includes bibliographical references and index.