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  title info:
    title: Cure
    sub title: a journey into the science of mind over body
  name:
    name part: Marchant, Jo
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 300 pages ; 25 cm
  abstract: "A rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind's extraordinary ability to heal the body ... While we accept that stress or anxiety can damage our health, the idea of "healing thoughts" was long ago hijacked by New Age gurus and spiritual healers. Recently, however, serious scientists from a range of fields have been uncovering evidence that our thoughts, emotions, and beliefs can ease pain, heal wounds, fend off infection and heart disease, even slow the progression of AIDS and some cancers. In Cure, award-winning science writer Jo Marchant travels the world to meet the physicians, patients, and researchers on the cutting edge of this new world of medicine. We learn how meditation protects against depression and dementia, how social connections increase life expectancy, and how patients who feel cared for recover from surgery faster. We meet Iraq war veterans who are using a virtual arctic world to treat their burns and children whose ADHD is kept under control with half the normal dose of medication. We watch as a transplant patient uses the smell of lavender to calm his hostile immune system and an Olympic runner shaves vital seconds off his time through mind-power alone. Drawing on the very latest research, Marchant explores the vast potential of the mind's ability to heal, acknowledges its limitations, and explains how we can make use of the findings in our own lives"--
  table of contents: Introduction -- Faking it: why nothing works -- A deviant idea: when meaning is everything -- Pavlov's power: how to train your immune system -- Fighting fatigue: the ultimate prison break -- In a trance: imagine your gut as a river -- Rethinking pain: into the ice canyon -- Talk to me: why caring matters -- Fight or flight: thoughts that kill -- Enjoy the moment: how to change your brain -- Fountain of youth: the secret power of friends -- Going electric: nerves that cure -- Looking for God: the real miracle of Lourdes -- Conclusion.
  note: Jo Marchant.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-286) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Mind and body therapies
  subject:
    topic: Mental healing
  subject:
    topic: Alternative medicine
  subject:
    topic: MEDICAL
    topic: Alternative Medicine
  subject:
    topic: PSYCHOLOGY
    topic: Neuropsychology
  subject:
    topic: HEALTH & FITNESS
    topic: Diseases
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Alternative medicine
  subject:
    topic: Mental healing
  subject:
    topic: Mind and body therapies
  classification: RC489.M53 M36 2016
  classification: 616.89/14
  classification: 615.851
  classification: MED004000 PSY020000 HEA039000
  identifier: 9780385348157
  identifier: 0385348150
  identifier: 9780385348171
  identifier: 0385348177
  identifier: 9780385348164
  identifier: 0385348169
  identifier: 2015024707
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 151026
    record change date: 20160215152126.0
    record identifier: in00003611363
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng