The Ecology of Health

Introduction PART ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON HEALTH AND ECOLOGY Biomedical Technologies and the Environment - Carl Mitcham Rejecting Nature Brave New Biocracy - Ivan Illich A Critique of Health Care from Womb to Tomb Deep Ecology from the Perspective of Ecological Science - Frank B Golley Beastly Questions - Michael W Fox Transgenic Animals and 'Wild' Nature - Strachan Donnelley A Landscape of Moral Ecology Politics, Spirituality and Environmental Healing - David J Hufford and Mariana Chilton Birth in the Technology - Robbie E Davis-Floyd Body Image and Worldview The Caretakers of Suffering - Janice Morse Aboriginal Healing and its Relevance for Non-Aboriginals - David E Young Yoga for Health and Freedom - B K S Iyengar and F Dean Lerner PART TWO: POLICY ISSUES IN HEALTH AND HEALTH ECOLOGY Risk, Science, and Democracy - William D Ruckleshaus The Politics of Cancer - Robert N Proctor Radiation - Judith Johnsrud The Ghost in the Biosphere A Molecular Basis for Development - David Morris An Environmental Policy for the 1990s Productive Technologies - Janice Raymond The Necessity for Limits Primary Health Care and the World Health Organization - Marilyn Maridiros Intersectoral Health Care Delivery - Constance McCorkle Ethnobotany - Michael J Balick Linking Health and Environmental Conservation You Are What You Eat - Robert Rodale PART THREE: NEW PATHS: TOWARD AN ECOLOGY OF HEALTH Health and Self-Mastery - Phil Nuernberger The Ecology of Personal Power Addiction and Recovery for Individuals and Society - Jim Johnson Learning to See New Landscapes - Philip Blackford and Stephen Couchman The Canadian Outward Bound Wilderness School Humor and Healing - Hunter 'Patch' Adams Or, Why We're Building a Silly Hospital Hospice - Edna McHutchion A Return to Compassionate Care The Fallacy of the Active Ingredient - Hari Sharma Environmental Medicine and Individual Health - William Rea Homeopathy - Wayne B Jonas Cause or Consequences in Therapy? What Is Biodynamics? - Sherry Wildfeuer Eating in the Bioregion - Dorothy Blair An Introduction to Permaculture - Bill Mollison Living the Good Life - Helen Nearing