Her detailed analysis of popular beliefs and behaviours reveals the compelling logic of personal decisions about health and healing. Experience and expectation, not fear and ignorance, shaped the health care choices of both cancer sufferers and the "healthy" public. A close examination of three unconventional practitioners in Ontario demonstrates the importance and vitality of alternative medicine. By presenting treatment options that were congenial and plausible to cancer sufferers, these healers contested the authority of conventional medicine. An investigation of government cancer care policy, particularly the activities of Ontario's Commission for the Investigation of Cancer Remedies, exposes the difficulties of defining legitimate health care and the limits of state support for the medical profession. This is, ultimately, a book about who held power in medical encounters in the past. With masterful assurance and a highly readable style, Clow portrays the disputes between sufferers and healers, practitioners and politicians, and legislators and laity that coloured perceptions of medical authority and constrained the power of the profession.
The selections gathered here, in poetic, readable translation, represent Jewish, Christian, Hermetic, Mandaean, Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar expressions of gnostic spirituality. Their regions of origin include Egypt, the Greco-Roman world, the Middle East, Syria, Iraq, China, and France. Also included are introductions, notes, an extensive glossary, and a wealth of suggestions for further reading. This highly decorative collection of silhouette designs provides commercial artists and craftspeople with an abundance of elegant and fanciful motifs. Artist Rico Prosperoso has created richly detailed portraits of lovely ladies wearing elaborate headdresses, graceful images of wood sprites, ships Watford & South West Herts in the Great War download ebook in full sail, beautiful floral vignettes, a powerful interpretation of a Chinese dragon, and much more.Choose from 153 bold and eye-catching designs in varied sizes, covering many subjects. Cleanly printed on high-quality paper for easy and instant reproductions, the illustrations are ideal for embellishing stationery and menus, for decoupage projects, and wherever there's a need for distinctive, beautiful, royalty-free art.
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Author: Barbara Clow
Number of Pages: 256 pages
Published Date: 01 Nov 2001
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication Country: Montreal, Canada
Language: English
ISBN: 9780773522114
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