The Healers

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By Thomas S. Helling

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Celebrated surgeon and medical historian offers brief biographies of medical healers through the ages, from the ancient Greeks to the present day, illuminating various approaches to healing body and spirit.

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Chapter One: How Do We Heal?

Chapter Two: Between Gods and Men: The Asclepiads

Chapter Three: Y a the Nazarene and His Followers

Chapter Four: Galen the Inquisitor

Chapter Five: The Medievalists

Chapter Six: Angelical Conjunctions

Chapter Seven: He áka Sápa, Lak óta Healer

Chapter Eight: Healing the Incurable: Damien of Moloka'I

Chapter Nine: Aequanimitas: William Osler

Chapter Ten: Temptresses, Sorcerers, and Scientists: Women as Healers

Chapter Eleven: Alexis Carrel: A Search for Miracles

Chapter Twelve: Humanism: The Bostonian

Chapter Thirteen: A Certain Brutality: Healing and Cancer

Chapter Fourteen: Sabina Spielrein: Healer of the Soul

Chapter Fifteen: The Mysteries of Healing

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